asked the hon. Member for St. George's-in-the-East, as representing the Insurance Commissioners, what number of institutions have been approved for medical benefit, under Section 15, Sub-section (4) of the National Insurance Act in England and Wales; the number of persons who have accepted this method of medical benefit; and the number of institutes which have received the full amount allowed for medical benefit?

Eighty-seven systems and institutions in England and Wales have been approved under Section 15 (4) of the National Insurance Act, 1911. The rest of the information asked for is not available.

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether the Garristown and Delvin Drainage District Board have instituted proceedings in Chancery for payment of arrears of maintenance rate assessed so far back as 1902; whether three of the defendants are Noble Lords, one of them chairman of the Board; whether all or any of the other defendants and, if so, how many were invited or given notice of the date of election of the plantiff Board; if not, whether the principle of no taxation without representation is outraged in this case; if he will state whether the Commissioners will suggest that the Board should legalise its existence by a formal election at the earliest date; and whether the arrears of maintenance rate could be collected in a less extensive manner by a Civil Bill process as laid down in the Act of 26 and 27 Vict.?

The Board of Works are not in possession of information which would furnish an answer to the first half of the hon. Member's question, and pending the proceedings to which he refers, I do not propose to institute inquiry. The Act 26 and 27 Vict., c. 88, makes provision for an annual election in September, and I see no reason for making the suggestion mentioned. As regards the concluding part of the question, the Act provides two methods of collecting arrears of maintenance rate (1) proceedings in the Court of Chancery, and (2) Civil Bill process. The Drainage Board were no doubt advised as to which course they should adopt.

asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if he will state whether, in the case of the late Anne Beglin, an evicted tenant on the Car michael estate, county Cavan, a Mr. Arthur M'Clean, who has possession of the farm, agreed in writing to surrender the same on receiving reasonable compensation; is he aware that M'Clean has recently again expressed his willingness to accept compensation; and, as it is the wish of the district that Bernard Kiernan should get his late aunt's holding in Aughterera, will he have an inspector sent to investigate the whole matter?

The Estates Commissioners have no knowledge of any agreement by the present occupier to surrender the former holding of Anne Boylan. The estate is not the subject of proceedings for sale before them under the Land Purchase Acts and they cannot take any action in the matter.

asked the Chief Secretary to state the populations of the provinces of Ulster, Munster, Connaught, and Leinster, separately?

The population of the various provinces, according to the Census of 1911, is as follows:—

asked the Chief Secretary whether his attention has been directed to the dispute between the members of the Dublin Typographical Provident Society and the Dublin master printers; whether no improvement in the rate of wages or in the number of working hours has taken place in the case of the Dublin printing trade for almost a quarter of a century, while the cost of living has increased enormously; whether the present demands of the workers are of the most modest character and yet have been refused; and whether he will make inquiry into this subject and endeavour to bring this dispute to an amicable conclusion?

My right hon. Friend has asked me to reply to this question. I understand that this dispute is now settled.

asked the Prime Minister when the present Regulations limiting the number of non-commissioned officers and men placed on the married strength of the Army will be altered, and to what additional class or classes of married non-commissioned officers and men it is intended to extend the privileges of being married on the strength?

I can make no statement at present on this subject.

asked the Secretary of State for War what have been the numbers of recruits for the Regulars and for the Special Reserves for 1912 and for 1913 from the provinces of Ulster, Munster, Connaught, and Leinster, respectively?

The hon. Member will find on page 47 of the General Annual Report on the British Army for 1913, information as to the number of recruits raised in the various recruiting areas in Ireland for the Regulars and Special Reserve during the last five years.

asked the President of the Board of Education what are the rules of the Education Department with regard to the reports of examiners of schools; and whether they are regarded as confidential or whether a head master is able to obtain from the Board of Education a copy of the report of his school if his governors fail to supply him with one?

I understand the hon. Member's question to refer to reports made by the Board's inspectors upon secondary schools. It is the practice of the Board to send a copy of every report made by their inspectors after a formal inspection of a secondary school direct to the head master, as well as to the governing body.

asked the President of the Board of Agriculture if he will give a list of the weights and measures, other than those specified in the Weights and Measures Acts, which are in use in the various agricultural and stock markets in England and Wales?

A Return of the various weights and measures at which corn was then sold was given in the Appendix to the Report of the Select Committee on Corn Sales of 1893. The Board have not at command any more recent Return of weights and measures in local use, and fresh inquiry would be needed to procure it. The Board have some information as regards certain markets in connection with their Weekly Market Return, but it is by no means complete.

asked the Postmaster-General if he is aware that the firm of Duncan, Campbell, and Son, printers, of St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, are printers for the Glasgow Post Office; if his attention has been called to this firm in question not conforming to the Fair-Wages Clause; and if he will have inquiry made especially into the cases of labourers' wages?

The firm of Duncan, Campbell, and Son holds the contract for printing for the Glasgow Post Office. Inquiry has been made, and it has been ascertained that the firm conforms in all respects to the terms of the Fair-Wages Clause.

asked the Postmaster-General whether he has received a resolution, passed unanimously at a meeting of the Palmers Green and Southgate Kate-payers' Association on 30th ultimo, relative to the removal of telephone poles no longer required, in consequence of the lines having been laid underground; and whether he has come to any decision in the matter?

I was not previously aware of the resolution in question. The answer as regards the poles is similar to that which I gave the hon. Member on the 6th instant regarding poles in Selborne Road. Nothing definite has yet been settled with the Southgate Urban District Council.

asked the President of the Local Government Board if he will now give the information with regard to the outbreak of diphtheria in Upper Norwood I as to whether the cause of the outbreak has been traced to the milk supply; whether, on one farm supplying milk to the neighbourhood, one milker had an ulcer on his finger, which proved to be infected with diphtheria germs, and another had sores on his hands which were infected with diphtheria germs; and whether several of the men on the dairy were found to carry diphtheria germs in their throats?

The report on this outbreak, which has been made by one of the Board's medical inspectors, is I in the Press. I will send a copy of it to the hon. Member when issued.