§ Sir JOSEPH COMPTON-RICKETTasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that the shipping trade of Goole is considerably embarrassed by a dispute between the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company and the Aire and Calder Canal Company (the port authority), as to the conditions under 435W which one of the principal coal hoists should be worked; whether he has been informed that this coal hoist has consequently remained idle for many months, to the great detriment of the port; and whether the Board of Trade would be prepared to offer its services in the matter as arbitrator, or whether he will suggest any other method of ending the dispute?
§ Mr. TENNANTThe Board of Trade have for some time past been using their goods offices with a view to effecting a settlement of the difficulty referred to, but I regret that they have so far been unsuccessful. I should be quite willing to appoint an arbitrator if both parties expressed a desire to that effect.