§ MR. BOTTOMLEYI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether, in accordance with the provisions of Subection 3 of Section 8 of the Public Trustee Act, the Treasury has required that the Public Trustee shall be a person already in the public service.
§ MR. RUNCIMANNo, Sir.
§ MR. BOTTOMLEYAm I to gather from that Answer that, inasmuch as the Treasury have not exercised their statutory powers of requiring that a Public Trustee should be a gentleman already in the public service, they agree with the view of the Lord Chancellor that the chairman of Allsopp's Brewery is the best qualified person available for that post?
§ MR. RUNCIMANI do not know exactly what the view of the Lord Chancellor is. I, at all events, concur in it.