§ 31. Mr. CREANasked whether the attention of the Local Government Board has been drawn to the case of a man named John Kelly, a pauper in receipt of out-door relief of the value of 6s. a week from the Bandon Board of Guardians, who was able to pay 50s. for a pony distrained for refusal to pay contributions under the Insurance Act; whether this man states that he was commissioned to act as emergency man on the occasion, but declines to say by whom he was supplied with money; and whether the Local Government Board will order an inquiry into the whole transaction and the discontinuance of the outdoor relief?
§ Mr. RUSSELLThe Local Government Board have no information with regard to this matter, but inquiry is being made.