§ MR. CHANNING (Northamptonshire, E.)To ask the President of the Board of Agriculture in how many instances since the passing of the Fertilisers' and Feeding Stuffs Act, 1893, application has been made to the Board to issue a certificate under the Act that there is reasonable ground for prosecution under Section 3 of the Act; what number of such certificates have been issued; and whether he can state the number of prosecutions and the results of such prosecutions.
(Answered by Mr. Hanbury.) Only one application has been made to the Board by a private purchaser for a certificate to enable proceedings to be instituted under Section 3 of the Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act, 1893, and in that case the Board were unable, on the evidence before them, to accede to the application. Several prosecutions have 1544 been instituted under Section 3 of the Act by County Councils, for which no certificate from the Board is required. We have received reports of seven such prosecutions, six of which resulted in a conviction.