§ MR. HOWARD VINCENT (Sheffield, Central)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if any results have yet attended the International Industrial Conference, held at Madrid last year, and particularly as regards the extension in Foreign countries of the legislative measures adopted by Her Majesty's Government against false marking, the counterfeiting of British trade designations, and in furtherance of honest trading?
§ SIR J. FERGUSSONThe projects submitted by the Madrid Conference for the approval of the respective Governments were designed to be concluded on the 14th of October last; but an extension of that period till the 14th of April next has been requested by certain Governments in order to enable them to give the subject more careful consideration. Communications on the subject are now in progress, and it is hoped that the above-mentioned extension of time will not be over-passed.