MR. BRYNMOR JONES (Swansea District)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that at a meeting of the Justices of the Peace for the county borough of Cardiff, held on the 11th August, 1899, for the purpose of electing the licensing committee for the then forthcoming brewster sessions, Mr. T. W. Lewis, the stipendiary magistrate, read section 60 of the Licensing.Act, 1872, and stated that he did so in accordance with his previous practice in order to remind the Justices of the existing law; and, whether, seeing that after that statement certain Justices for the said county borough interested in the sale of intoxicating liquors took part in the subsequent voting for the election of the licensing committee, he proposes to take any action in the matter.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir M. WHITE RIDLEY, Lancashire, Blackpool)I have made inquiry, and understand that a correspondence took place last autumn between the stipendiary magistrate and the Lord Chancellor on this subject. Under these circumstances I do not propose to take any action.