§ MR. JOSHUA FIELDENasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If his attention has been drawn to the report of the West Hiding Petty Sessions, held at Pontefract on the 1st April last, at which the chairman announced that "the magistrates were determined to refuse the transfer of all licences on which convictions had been endorsed;" and, if such a decision is authorized by the Licensing Acts; and, if not, what action he proposes to take in the matter?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS, in reply, said, he was informed that the Chairman of the Justices had made no announcement of any such determination as that stated in the Question, but that the Justices did take precautions to insure a respectable tenant where two convictions were endorsed on licences. As far as he could judge, no general rule was laid down for all cases, but each case was dealt with individually.