§ Colonel HOWARD-BURYasked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that after building the. Territorial Army Association Drill Hall in Chestnut Grove, at Brentwood, the Brentwood Urban District Council have been called upon by the War Office to provide an additional surface-water sewer at a cost of £70; that they are required to pay. £35 for half the cost of a proposed new wall; to pay 145 for a strip of land required for widening the road in Chestnut Grove; to make up the little-used road in Chestnut Grove, which will mean an an extra 2d. rate; and whether, although requests from the urban district council for an interview with the War Office 963W have been refused, he will give orders so that the Brentwood Urban District Council may have the opportunity of discussing the matter with the War Office so that a compromise might be arrived at?
§ Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANSMy hon. and gallant Friend is under a misapprehension. No action on the part of the War Office or the Territorial Association has caused the expense to the urban district council in connection with the surface water sewer. As regards the terms on which facilities can be granted for the improvements that the urban district council wish to carry out in Chestnut Grove, the council should approach the Territorial Army Association. Neither the Association nor the Army Council, I understand, have been asked to grant the urban district council an interview.