§ MR. STEADMAN (Tower Hamlets, Stepney)I beg to ask the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether the British Consuls at Florence and Milan did, in conjunction with the mayors of those places, sign or countersign the contracts of the foreign plasterers imported into England during the present dispute in the plastering trade, and, if so, whether they were acting within their right as representatives of the British Government?
§ MR. BRODRICKNo information on this subject has reached this Department, but Her Majesty's Consuls have been requested to report what took place.