§ MR. FIELDTo ask the hon. Member for South Somerset as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, if he can state the number of employees in the Ordnance Survey, Ireland, who resigned during the past twelve months, and if he can state how many of these gave as their reasons for resigning their intention of transferring their labour to the Congested Districts Board or the Irish Land Commission.
(Answered by Sir Edward Strachey.) Eleven temporary civil assistants and sixty-one labourers resigned and left the Ordnance Survey in Ireland during the year ending on 31st March last. Two assistants resigned to take up appointments under the Irish Land Commission, but no one gave as a reason for leaving the Ordnance Survey that he had obtained employment under the Congested Districts Board.