HC Deb 19 April 1877 vol 233 cc1442-3
MR. A. H. BROWN

asked the President of the Board of Trade, Whether, in addition to the powers of the Act of 1864, he will consider the advisability of introducing a measure dealing with the Report of the Standards Commission which sat from 1868 to 1871, especially with that part of the Second Report which states among other recommendations that the time had arrived when the Law should provide, and facilities should be afforded by the Government for the permission, introduction, and use of metric weights and measures in the United Kingdom?

SIR CHARLES ADDERLEY,

in reply, said, he could not say that the Government had any intention of attempting to deal with the subject this Session.