§ MR. RODWELL (for Mr. STAVELEY HILL)asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether, having regard to the limitation proposed in the Licensing Laws Amendment Bill, excluding from its operation anything affecting the sale of beer or wine in bottles, he is prepared to offer on behalf of the Government any assistance to the passing of the Bill?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS,in reply, said, he sympathized somewhat with the terms of the Question, as it embodied the suggestion he had made some time ago to the grocers when they came to see him on the subject; but he found there was a very wide difference of opinion on the matter, and he felt it would be impossible, within a reasonable time, for the question to be discussed. He, therefore, could not promise, on behalf of the Government, any facilities for passing the Bill.