§ MR. PICKERSGILL (Bethnal Green, S.W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his statement that the recent police order prohibiting sandwich-men from perambulating the Strand, Piccadilly, and Bond Street, was made under the authority of the Highway Act, 1835, will he be good enough to say under which section of that Act the order purports to have been made; and will he lay a copy of the order upon the Table of the House?
THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENTThe section referred to is 72. There is no order of the nature referred to which could be laid upon the Table of the House, but the police have instructions to prevent the obstruction caused in these crowded thoroughfares by sandwichmen.
§ MR. PICKERSGILLDoes not the order absolutely prohibit sandwichmen from entering the streets?
THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENTThe instructions to the police are to prevent obstructions by sandwichmen in crowded thoroughfares.