MR. KEIR-HARDIEI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether on the 13th December, 1892, a summons, at the instance of Mr. E. Gould, a Factory Inspector, against a 1245 printer named Robson for an infringement of the Factory and Workshops Act, was called at the Mansion House Police Court, and allowed to drop owing to Mr. Gould not putting in an appearance; and whether he can inform the House why Mr. Gould was absent?
§ MR. ASQUITHMr. Gould made a mistake in the day, and consequently did not appear as prosecutor in December; but he subsequently prosecuted the firm for a similar offence on the 16th February, and obtained a conviction.