DR. RUTHERFORD (Middlesex, Brentford)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to the fact that James Scott, cab proprietor, Pakenham Street, Gray's Inn Road, was fined 2s. 6d. and his licence endorsed, on July 6th, at the Marlborough Police Court, for the driver causing obstruction when, having returned from a long drive, he walked his horse a short distance along Piccadilly; and whether he can take any steps to secure that the police shall show more consideration in future for cabmen.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) It is not the case that James Scott, a cab proprietor, was fined and his licence endorsed in the circumstances stated, but a driver employed by him was convicted and fined for loitering in Piccadilly, after having ignored a caution given him by the constable on duty. Every consideration is extended by the police to cabmen, but it is absolutely necessary, if the traffic of London is to be kept in motion at all, 1187 that the regulations should be strictly observed in congested streets like Piccadilly. The general question is under the consideration of the Select Committee on Cabs.