§ MR. HULSEI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if his attention has been called to a recent conviction of Thomas Chilvers at the Clerkenwell Police Court, on the prosecution of the London County Council, for unlawfully keeping open a place of public resort for the purpose of public music without having obtained a County Council certificate; and whether he will call the attention of the London County Council or direct the police to prosecute in the case of a number of places of public resort unlicensed, in which concerts and entertainments were announced in the Press to be given last Sunday?
§ MR. ASQUITHsaid, that his attention had not been previously called to this case. Where there was no actual disorderly conduct or immorality the police did not take action, but left such things to be dealt with by the inhabitants of the district. He did not think it would lie advisable that the police should depart from the ordinary practice.