§ SIR WILFRID LAWSON (Cumberland, Cockermouth)I beg to ask the noble Lord, the Member for West Houghton, Lancashire, whether the Kitchen Committee have taken the opinion of the Law Officers of the Crown as to the legality of supplying intoxicating liquors to purchasers without having obtained a licence for that purpose?
§ LORD STANLEY (Lancashire, West Houghton)No licence is taken out, and, as far as I can ascertain, there has never been one. I do not therefore propose consulting the Law Officers as to the legality of this long-standing custom. [Laughter and "Hear, hear!"]
§ SIR WILFRID LAWSONThen is drink sold in the same way as at a bogus treating club? [Laughter.]
§ [No answer was given.]