§ MR. O'GRADY (Leeds, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in view of the varying decisions given by the stipendiary magistrates and bench of justices in the London area respecting ejectment orders against householders, lodgers, and tenement occupiers, he will issue an order that in future the uniform time of twenty-one days shall be adopted in these matters.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. GLADSTONE, Leeds, W.)I understand there is a difference of opinion on this question, which leads to a difference of practice, but which could be settled only by a judicial decision. I have no power to settle it, nor to issue any order on the subject.
§ * MR. PICKERSGILL (Bethnal Green, S.W.)Will the right hon. Gentleman instruct the metropolitan police that in carrying out these orders, they must not deposit the goods in the street, and so break one law in executing another?
§ MR. GLADSTONEI do not think I have any power on this subject.