§ MR. DELANY (Queen's County, Ossory)To ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer whether his attention has been called to the case in which a Belfast merchant has been fined £200 for blending, at his own premises, patent spirit with pot-still whisky; whether a similar practice is regularly carried on an the bonded warehouses under the supervision of the Inland Revenue officials, and the mixture so compounded retailed to consumers as pot-still whisky; and can he say what steps he proposes taking to prevent such fraud upon the public.
(Answered by Mr. Asquith.) I can only refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to a similar Question by the hon. Member for Wicklow yesterday.†
§ † See Col. 413