HC Deb 24 August 1894 vol 29 c421
COLONEL HOWARD VINCENT

I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether he will give the names of the consignees of the 6,000 German chisels recently seized at Leith, fraudulently marked as English goods, having regard to the strong presumption that they were so marked by order of the importers?

MR. BRYCE

Having communicated with the Commissioners of Customs, they inform me that they do not desire to give the names of the consignees of the chisels. It would be undesirable, in the absence of evidence that the consignees were parties to the fraud, to publish their names.

COLONEL HOWARD VINCENT

Am I not justified in stating that no Sheffield firm was concerned in this contraband importation?

MR. BRYCE

I have no information whatever on the point.