§ Lord CRICHTON-STUARTasked the Minister of Transport whether he is aware that the deadlock which exists between his Department, the Weaver Navigation trustees, and the Cheshire County Council has led to the closing of a bridge at Northwich on the Manchester-Chester main road, and to excessive use being made of the only alternative bridge, so that inconvenience and loss are caused locally, and there is in prospect a serious dislocation of important through traffic; and whether he will take the whole of the circumstances under review?
§ Colonel ASHLEYI intimated to the Cheshire County Council more than three months ago that I was prepared to make a 50 per cent, grant towards the cost of strengthening this bridge, and I regret that, with this aid in view, the public bodies concerned have not yet arranged to carry out the urgently necessary works in question. I am informed that the matter is to be further considered by a committee of the county council on the 9th instant.