§ MR. FINIGANasked the President of the Board of Trade, If he will inquire into the existence of a combination entered into in the City of London by some 72 trading firms, by which they 1226 have agreed not in future to tender for stocks in competition with any firm carrying on a retail business, but to withdraw their offer if any firm not exclusively wholesale be permitted to tender; and, whether such combination is strictly legal?
§ MR. CHAMBERLAINSir, I have received no information whatever in reference to the subject of this Question. No complaints have reached me with regard to the matter, and I do not think any public interest would be served by making further inquiry into it.