§ MR. CHIOZZA MONEY (Paddington, N.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if his attention has been directed to the increasing nuisance caused by motor-omnibuses, and to the losses sustained through those nuisances by householders on motor-omnibus routes; if ho is aware that many London thoroughfares are blackened by oil dropped from these vehicles, and that the clothes of foot passengers are frequently spoiled from the same cause; and whether, in view of the inherent defects of both horse and mechanically drawn heavy vehicles not run on rails, he can see his way to represent to the London County Council that the construction of a complete London electric-tramway system, to make omnibuses unnecessary, would be for the common good and profit of all classes in London.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (MR. GLADSTONE, Leeds, W.)My attention is constantly being directed to the whole question of motor-omnibus traffic, but I am disposed to consider that the objectionable features of that traffic show signs of diminution rather than of increase. The dropping of oil is being dealt with specially by the police and by an influential trade association. I have no authority to make to the London County Council any such representation as is suggested in the last part of the Question.