QUESTIONS.
 President.: I now call upon the Honourable Member for Kingstown to ask
the questions standing in-his name.
 Honourable Member for Kingstown : Ydur Honour, Honourable Members of
Council, I ask permission to askthe. following questions standing im my name:-
 1. Will Government please state what-further advice has been received from
 the Secretary of State for the Colonies concerrfing methods of raising
 money for a Slum Clearance Scheme since it has been pointed out t6 him
 that his previous suggestions were unworkable?,
Reply: None.
 2. Will Government please state if -the suggestion put up by the Methodist
 Church Authorities for obtaining money for Slum Clearance in- St. Vincent
 has yet been investigated, and if so, whether the scheme is workable in St.
 Vincent? --
Reply: Yes, but it is not workable in St. Vincent.
 I would like to add for Honourable Members' information that the scheme-
 as such really means a loan proposal whereby a number of small investors
 will invest in the loan; and it will be noted from the second Water Supply
 loan that small investors' do not wish to invest, as none came forward in
 that connection. For that reason I do not think the Methodist Scheme is
 workable.

Hon'ble Member for Kingstown : Is it Government's intention to carry on with
 the lottery?
Reply: The latest reply-from the Secretary of State is that he cannot, or will not
 agree to State lotteries.
 3. Will Government please state whether the proposed Committee for the
 purpose of surveying the system of Taxation in the Colony has been set up?
 If so has any report been received?
Reply: A Committee has been appointecd, but as 'it was created primarily to-
 investigate the possibility of reducing taxation, members felt that there
 was little point in meeting until the financial position of the Colony
 became more stable, and so no report has been received.
 4., Will Government please take steps to protect the dangerous corner on the
 Camden.Park Road near the dam?
Reply: The Honourable Member's attention is drawn to the reply to a similar
 question by the Hoflourable Member for Leeward giien at the meeting of
 this Council on the 17th July, 1950.
 5. Will Government please lay before this House information respecting the
 monthly amounts of Rum taken out of Bond by Liquor Dealers from 1st
 January, 1S49 to the end of June, 1950; and the amounts used for-the
 purpose of making Bay Rum for the same period?
Reply: Statement showing Rum removed from Bond and Quantity used for
 Manufacture of Bay Rum during the period 1st January, 1949 to 30th Juie,
 1950 ;


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