Sir H. DALZIELasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that in the Kilsyth district of Fife a great number of beings are full of coal, the miners being unable to get their coal taken away; whether if the coal companies were compelled to supply additional hutches, wagons, and other plant the output of coal could be increased considerably; whether the Pannie pit belonging to the Fife Coal Company had two idle days within the fortnight ending 25th October for the want of wagons; and whether he proposes to take any action in the matter?
Mr. RUNCIMANI understand that there has occasionally been difficulty in dispatching the output from some pits in Stirlingshire in the Kilsyth district, and I will communicate with the railway company on the subject. No time appears to have been lost at the Pannie pit in the fortnight named.