§ MR. MACKARNESSTo ask the President of the Local Government Board whether he will state how many applications were made to the Local Government Board by local authorities for orders to reduce the speed of motor cars to ten miles an hour in the years 1904 and 1905, and how many since; which are the local authorities who have so 707 applied and when; and in how many cases the applications were granted prior to 1906, and in how many since.
(Answered by Mr. John Burns.) During the years 1904 and 1905, forty-eight applications were made to the Local Government Board by local authorities for the reduction of the speed of motor cars to ten miles per hour on certain roads, namely, seven by county councils and forty-one by town councils. Since 1905 there have been fifty-four such applications, namely, thirty-seven by county councils and seventeen by town councils. In a considerable number of cases these applications have been subsequently abandoned or allowed to lapse. No order fixing a speed limit of ten miles was issued in 1904, one was issued in 1905. Since that date twenty such orders have been issued and another is about to issue.