§ MR. CAUSTON (Southwark. N.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the view expressed in his letter of 3rd July, 1903, to certain owners of vehicles, that, if the driver of a vehicle could see in front and on each side of him, within the range of an are of 180 degrees, that would be considered as reasonably complying with the requirements of the London County Council's by-law on the subject, has been communicated to the Chief Commissioner of Police; and, if not, will he cause such an instruction to be issued for the guidance of the police authorities.
§ MR. AKERS-DOUGLASI presume the hon. Member has in mind the proceedings taken against Messrs. Carter, Paterson & Co. in the Guildhall Court last week. I have no special information as to the facts of that case, or the grounds of the decision of the Court, but I may say that it was not intended by the London County Council in proposing the by-law to require a wider view of traffic than that contained within an are of 180 degrees. The case in question was a City one, and I am in communication with the Commissioner of City Police on the subject.