§ MR. ELLIOTT LEES (Birkenhead)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether, in the Schedule of Paper, referred to in the circular letter of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office, dated 14th February, 1895, the term hand-made or mould-made, occurring in Item 94, is intended to refer to paper made on moulds worked by machinery; and, if so, whether, seeing that the instruction which follows—namely, hand-made to be marked on wrapper, inflicts an injury on the makers of genuine hand-made papers, and contains an inducement to makers of mould-made papers by machinery to misname their productions as hand-made, he will cause the schedule to be revised?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Sir JOHN HIBBERT, Oldham)The Stationery Office, having satisfied itself that papers of qualities formerly produced only by the process of hand-making, are now produced also by mechanical processes, has lately, when requiring papers for uses for which "hand-made" alone were formerly supplied, invited alternative tenders for papers of the same weight and material either "hand-made" or "mould-made." The latter phrase is intended, as suggested in the question, "to refer to paper made on moulds worked by machinery." By an oversight the words "or mould-made," when introduced into the specification, were not inserted, as they should have been, in the direction for marking the wrappers. Instructions have been given to correct the error.