§ MR. BLANE (Armagh, S.)asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If he is aware that the present proprietor of the "King's Head," Stowmarket, has been refused his licence, and that his predecessors, at the last licensing day, applied for a renewal in their name and obtained same, although they live out of the locality and do not 912 in any way take part in the business, and that Johnson, the present proprietor, pays the late holders for permission to trade in their name; and, if such action is legal?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. MATTHEWS) (Birmingham, E.), in reply, said, he had no information with regard to the circumstances referred to. If the facts were fully stated, they would involve in answer the expression of a legal opinion as to the action of the Licensing Authority. It was not for him to express any such opinion on the matter, and it was one that must be dealt with by the Local Authority.