§ MR. W. G. MOUNT (Berks, Newbury)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Chairman of the Derbyshire Quarter Sessions has been advised from tile Home Office that magistrates for that county who are shareholders either for their own benefit, or as trustees only, or debenture holders in the Midland Railway Company, are disqualified front acting as Justices under Section 60 of the Licensing Act of 1872, in consequence of that company being licensed to sell excisable liquors in its refreshment rooms in that county?
§ SIR MATTHEW WHITE RIDLEYIt is the case that Mr. Barker, the late Chairman, was advised by the Home office that Justices holding shares in railway companies which retailed intoxicating liquors were disqualified from acting under the Licensing Act of 1872, except in the cases specified in Section 60. I think there can be no doubt the same rule would apply to trustees for shareholders or debenture holders.