SIR TREVOR LAWRENCEasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether the total inadequacy of the accommodation for the Wandsworth Police Court has been brought repeatedly to the notice of the Home Office, and admitted by it; and, whether he is prepared to provide the Wandsworth District with a fitting Police Court, and the full services of a Police Magistrate?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURTI daresay, Sir, that all what the hon. Baronet says is perfectly true. I have exhausted my resources, and I am sorry to say that I cannot get the money. I shall be much obliged, therefore, if the hon. Baronet will turn his batteries on to the Secretary to the Treasury, and not on me.
SIR TREVOR LAWRENCEsaid that, in that case, he would put the Question to the Secretary to the Treasury.
§ MR. ARTHUR O'CONNORasked, Whether it was not the case that poor people at the Wandswrorth Police Court had often to wait several hours until the magistrate, who attended at Hammersmith as well as Wandsworth, had got through his work at the former Court?
§ MR. COURTNEY, in reply, said, that the question of cost was the difficulty. Questions concerning the Metropolitan Police were very much open to debate; and, pending legislation on the subject of the government of the Metropolis, it would be more convenient that the matter should stand over.