§ SIR GEORGE DOUGLASasked Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether 318 he is prepared to propose any means by which the public may be protected from a recurrence of the injuries to person and property to which they have been so much exposed in consequence of the great increase in the number of useless dogs throughout the Country?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERSir, my hon. Friend will understand that I have nothing to do with the protection of the public from injury to property and person, except in so far as it might be connected with the levying of the dog tax. I have no doubt, however, from information I have received, that the dog tax is not of as restrictive a nature as it ought to be; and I am now in communication with the Board of Inland Revenue for the purpose of taking further measures for effecting that object. I hope that those measures may be effective, but I am not at the present moment in a position to give any further details.