§ MR. FIELDTo ask the Secretary to the Board of Trade whether he can state if any measures are adopted by manufacturers of shoddy to disinfect the materials from which it is made; and whether the Government will consider the advisability of taking measures to have shoddy sold as shoddy and not sold as wool, to the detriment of the public and the wool producer and the bona fide wool manufacturer.
(Answered by Mr. Bonar Law.) The question of disinfection is not within the province of the Board of Trade. False trade descriptions can already be dealt with under the Merchandise Marks Acts, and the Board of Trade are prepared to consider, with a view to prosecution, any specific case of infringement of those Acts which is submitted under the regulations which govern prosecutions.