§ MR. BROADHURSTasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether his attention has been called to the serious machinery accident on Wednesday last at the Health Exhibition; whether the manufacturing part of the Exhibition has been inspected by the Factory and Workshop Inspectors; and, whether the Law as to the hours of labour in factories are observed at the Health Exhibition?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURTThe accident seems to have been due to the man's own carelessness. Whatever may 203 be the legal position of Exhibitions of this kind, they are always inspected by the Factory and Workshop Inspectors; and I understand from those gentlemen that the machinery at the Health Exhibition is very well secured. With regard to the hours of labour at the Exhibition there is no foundation for the suggestion that those employed there are overworked?