Captain O'NEILLasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether it is proposed to remove the surveyorship of taxes, Income Tax Department, from Cookstown, county Tyrone; and, if so, whether he will arrange for the headquarters of this department to be re-established at Ballymena, county Antrim, which is, geographically and by railway communications, the best centre for this office?
§ Mr. HOBHOUSEThe reply to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. As regards the second part, it is considered that the interests of the taxpayers184W for the whole area involved will best be served by stationing the surveyor at Belfast.