64. Mr. NEWDEGATEasked the President of the Local Government Board whether he is now in a position to make a statement as to what steps the Local Government Board are going to take to prevent the inhabitants of Stoneydelph, near Tamworth, having to pay burial rates twice over, owing to the Local Government Board Order of 1913; and whether he is aware that a demand for the second burial rates is now being made on the inhabitants of Stoneydelph?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELOver a month ago the Local Government Board wrote a letter suggesting that the County Council of Warwickshire might be approached with a view to their making an Order under Section 57 (1) of the Local Government Act, 1888, altering the parish of Amington and Stoneydelph, but the matter is not one in which the Board have any authority to give a direction.