§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade, whether, with the view of protecting the public from fraud by the, owners, licensees, or others upon whose premises imperfect penny-in-the-slot automatic machines are placed, he will require all such machines to be fitted with an arrangement which will prevent the admission and retention of the coin when the machine is out of order, and fails to deliver any article?
§ MR. BRYCEI have conferred with my right hon. Friend the Home Secreretary to whose Department rather than to mine the matter seems to belong, and we are both agred in thinking that neither the Home Office nor the Board of Trade has any power to take the action which the question suggests.