§ 51. Colonel Clifton Brownasked the Minister of Transport whether he has had any applications for grants for road surfacing with gravel from a pit owned and worked by the Northumberland County Council at Beamish, in North Northumberland; whether he is aware that this material has been transported 41 miles by road for use in the immediate neighbourhood of one of the largest whinstone quarries in the county; and whether the non-skid and wearing qualities of the material are such as to justify such long haulages at the public expense?