Mr. WILLIAM REDMONDasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that the Great Southern and Western Railway Company of Ireland have erected additional premises to the old goods stores at Cork and built the same in front and against the office building, contrary to the laws of sanitation by excluding sunlight and air from the offices, to the danger of twenty-five clerks and several porters working in the offices; will he say if the city engineer and public health officer were supplied with the plans and specifications of these buildings and the additional buildings to be constructed for approval; and, if so, what steps he will take to have the building placed in a sanitary position and the present offices, now situated between the old and new stores, closed as dangerous to the public health?
Mr. BUXTONThe Board of Trade have no information in regard to this matter, and it is not one within their jurisdiction.