§ MR. EVERETT (Suffolk, Woodbridge)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to an article in The East Anglian Daily Times of 15th December last, describing the flogging at Woolverstone, near Ipswich, by a gentleman who is the owner of the district round, and a magistrate for Suffolk, of certain youths for scaring rabbits in his park; and whether he proposes to take any action in the matter?
§ THE SECRETA OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. ASQUITH,) Fife, E.The gentleman in question, I am informed, applied for and obtained the previous consent of the parents to chastise the boys. I do not propose to take any action in the question.