§ The following question stood on the Paper in the name of Sir W. DAVISON:
§ 9. To ask the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that the public have now been excluded from Kensington Gardens for over two months, whereby children and old persons in the west of London are suffering in health from being unable to use the gardens and children's playground therein; whether he has considered the possibility of providing accommodation for the soldiers now encamped in the gardens in the outskirts of London, whence they could rapidly be conveyed by motor transport in the event of their services being required in the central districts; and whether, if it is impossible for the whole gardens to be opened to the public, he will make the necessary arrangements for the western end of the same, including the children's playground, to be re-opened?
§ Sir W. DAVISONI think that effect has been given to the suggestion in the first part of the question.
§ Sir R. SANDERSKensington Gardens have been vacated by the troops, and were re-opened to the public on Saturday last.