§ MR. CHARLES ROBERTS (Lincoln)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the elections in the Transvaal were conducted with exceptional order and sobriety owing to Lord Milner's law forbidding the sale of liquor on election days; and whether he will bear this experience in mind in framing the forthcoming Licensing Bill.
§ MR. GLADSTONEI have no information enabling me to draw an accurate comparison in the matter of order and sobriety between the recent Transvaal elections and other elections; and so far as I am aware of the provisions of the Transvaal law it does not seem to go as far as totally prohibiting the sale of liquor on election days. I can, however, say that the question of such prohibition will be considered in connection with licensing reform.