CAPTAIN HEATHCOTEI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that the Stoke and Fenton 235th Starr Bowkett Building Society has not sent to the Registrar of Building Societies their returns for 1888, as required by 37 and 38 Vict. cap. 42, section 43; and whether he will take such measures as may be necessary to compel this Society to forward their returns for 1888 to the Registrar?
§ MR. MATTHEWSI am informed by the Registrar of Friendly Societies that the Society in question informed him in December last that, owing to the large number of withdrawals, arrangements were being made for winding up. No formal intimation, however, of the announced winding up has been received, and the Registrar will in a few days send the usual notice requiring a statement of accounts for the year ending July, 1888. It is, therefore, premature at present to say whether it will be necessary to take any action.
§ MR. BRADLAUGHIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that the evidence taken upstairs showed that the Registrar has completely neglected his duties as 902 to enforcing the sections of the Friendly Societies Act?
§ MR. MATTHEWSasked for notice of the question.