§ MR. CUNINGHAME GRAHAMI beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board if his attention has been directed to a special Regulation of the Market Committee of Hyde, Manchester, passed to prevent the Fabian Society from holding meetings on the market ground; and if this is legal, as all other bodies are allowed to use this ground for meetings?
MR. J. W. SIDEBOTTOM (Cheshire, Hyde)Before this question is answered, may I ask whether it is not a fact that no objection whatever can be offered to meetings of the Fabian Society on the Hyde Market Ground if the Society conform to the rules and regulations of the Town Council, and whether it is not the fact that all other bodies using the ground conform to the rules and regulations?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. STUART WORTLEY,) (who replied) Sheffield, HallamI am asked to say that the Local Government Board have no information on this subject, but that they will cause immediate inquiries to be made with regard to it. In answer to my hon. Friend, I may say I have no doubt that the inquiry will embrace the matter referred to in his supplementary question.