§ MR. SAUNDERSI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if his attention has been called to the Blackpool Improvement Bill, Section 39, which gives the Corporation power to make bye-laws to prohibit lecturing, preaching, or speech-making on the sands, which are 400 yards wide, and have hitherto been available for public meetings; and whether he proposes to take any action in the matter?
§ MR. ASQUITHThe Home Office reported adversely to this clause in the Bill, and I am informed that that portion of the clause which prohibits preaching and lecturing on the sea-shore has been to-day withdrawn by the promoters.