§ MR. FORTESCUE FLANNERY (Yorkshire, Shipley)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in framing rules to regulate woolsorting, and in determining the kind of wool for which special precautions will be taken, the Home Office will adopt the rules, or some modification thereof, issued by the Bradford Town Council, which are generally accepted throughout the trade applying to dangerous classes of wool; and, whether he will give full opportunity of conference with representatives of those concerned before rules are finally determined?
§ SIR MATTHEW WHITE RIDLEYThe special rules which have been suggested by the Dangerous Trades Committee and which I propose to adopt are based on the Bradford regulations with some modifications and additions. The rules will apply like the Bradford regulations to all kinds of wool, in so far as they require that all bales shall be opened by skilled persons, but in other respects they will apply to those kinds only that are dangerous. When they are issued, there will be ample opportunity for both offering and considering objections; but in view of the general acceptance for many years past of the Bradford regulations and of the desire which has been expressed that they should be given the force of special rules, I hope no serious opposition will be encountered.