§ MR. SEYMOUR KEAY (Elgin and Nairn)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to advertisements in Comic Cuts and other papers, stating that £200 will be given away in cash prizes to those sending most correct solutions to certain puzzles, and inviting competitors to send solutions together with 13 stamps; whether information has reached him that, owing to the extreme ease of guessing these puzzles, vast numbers of persons, chiefly youths and children, are induced to send, postal orders, receiving in return either nothing at all or merely nominal sums; and whether he will take steps to determine whether the law is being infringed by the operations in question?
§ MR. MATTHEWSNo, Sir; I have not seen the advertisements referred to; but I have called the attention of the Treasury Solicitor to the allegations made in the question.