§ 17. Mr. FIELDasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether it has been arranged that all War Office materials, including clothing, shall be inspected in the examining and receiving depot, Dublin, so that the business of inspection may be complete in Ireland; whether the buildings in Westland Row have now being taken possession of by the War Office; and, if so, whether the fitting up of the premises has been delayed owing to the non-arrival of necessary imported material?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. As regards the second and third parts, the whole of the Westland Row premises have been taken over by the War Department, and there has been no delay in fitting them up owing to the non-arrival of necessary imported material, but the outgoing firm have not been able to vacate the whole of the building as their new premises have not been completed. At a conference on the 14th instant between the All-Ireland Munitions Committee and a War Office Committee, the former expressed themselves well pleased with the progress made, and published Press announcements to that effect.