§ MR. MOON (St. Pancras, N.)To ask the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether he will give the reasons why, in the case of military badges made of other materials than metal, the War Office refuses to abandon conditions stipulating that a given article should be made by hand or by machine, or partly by one method and partly by the other, and declines to recognise conformity to the sealed pattern as the sole criterion.
(Answered by Mr. Bromley Davenport.) The Question apparently refers to worsted embroidery. Experience has proved that machine-embroidered badges and badges made partly by machinery and finished by hand do not equal the standard pattern. Consequently the stipulation "hand embroidered" in the tender forms is adhered to.