HL Deb 18 May 1905 vol 146 c729
LORD MUSKERRY

, who had given notice "To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have been made aware of the decision of the Board of Trade Inquiry which investigated the circumstances of the loss of the trawler 'Banff-shire'; whether, previous to her leaving Aberdeen, she was inspected by a Board of Trade surveyor competent to survey her compasses and life-saving apparatus, and, if not, why not; also to call attention to the general question of the surveying of life-saving apparatus on British merchant ships," said that in the regrettable absence, through illness, of the noble Marquess the President of the Board of Trade he would postpone putting his Questions until Monday, May 29th.

House adjourned at half-past Four o'clock, till To-morrow, half-past Ten o'clock.