§ 7. Mr. GILBERTasked the President of the Board of Trade whether the Tramways Committee set up by his Department has appointed Mr. A. H. Pott to a salaried appointment under the Committee; if he will state what the duties are of the post and the salary attached to it; what are Mr. Pott's qualifications for the position; if he was previously engineer and manager to the London United Tramways Company; and if he was only appointed by the casting vote of the chairman of the Committee, who is also managing director of the tramways company?
§ Mr. WARDLEI understand that the answers to the first and fourth parts of the hon. Member's question are in the affirmative. Mr. Pott's duties are those of a visiting technical officer at a proposed salary of £750 a year. Besides being formerly engineer and manager to the London United Tramways and the Metropolitan Electric Tramways, Mr. Pott is a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. I have no reason to doubt that Mr. Pott was selected as being fully qualified for the post.