§ DR. MACNAMARA (Camberwell,N.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether his attention has been called to the difficulties experienced by working-men voters, in London especially, in recording their votes, as a result of the closing of the poll for parliamentary elections at 8 o'clock p.m.; and, if so, whether he will consider the desirableness of extending the hours of polling and of fixing Saturday as a general polling day.
§ THE HOME SECRETARY (Mr. HERBERT GLADSTONE, Leeds, W.)No representations have yet reached me officially to the effect that working-men voters find it difficult to record their votes before 8 p.m., but it is a matter which shall receive my attention.