§ MR. NORMAN (Wolverhampton, S.)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury if he will afford time this 651 session for the passage of a Bill, which would probably be non-contentious, to carry into effect the second of the three recommendations of the Select Committee of 1895, the first and third having already been carried out, namely, that after a lapse of two years the metric system of weights and measures be rendered compulsory by Act of Parliament.
SIR H. CAMPBELL BANNERMANI can make no promise on the subject of such a Bill. It would, on becoming operative, necessarily render the use of all existing weights and measures 'illegal, and I do not think there is ground for anticipating with my hon. friend that such a measure would be non-contentious.