§ MR. H. J. TENNANT (Berwickshire)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to the death of Charles Ernest Gash, aged fifteen, at Hillsborough, through being crushed in the rolling mills of Messrs. Manoah King and Company; whether the firm had been warned to fence the machinery and couplings of rolls more than once, and had omitted to carry out the instructions of the inspector; and whether he proposes to take any action in the matter.
§ MR. GLADSTONEI have made inquiry and find that the firm had been warned by the inspector to fence the couplings in their factory. It would seem that they had provided guards in accordance with the inspector's instructions but had failed, in the case of the couplings which caused the accident, to keep the guards in position. The inspector has been directed to take proceedings against the firm for the breach of the Act involved.