HC Deb 10 July 1916 vol 84 c11
16. Mr. OUTHWAITE

asked whether any steps have been taken to consider the advisability of making preparations for carrying out any part of the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Canals and Waterways as a matter of national benefit and with a view to mitigating labour difficulties which are likely to arise on demobilisation?

Mr. HARCOURT

The recommendations of the Royal Commission on Canals and Waterways will be borne in mind in considering the problems of demobilisation And reconstruction.