§ 50. Mr. PIRIEasked the Secretary for Scotland, with reference to a petition from the St. Andrew Society regarding the representation of the United Kingdom in matters of heraldry, forwarded to him on 23rd July, 1912, for presentation to His Majesty the King, and signed officially on behalf of the St. Andrew Society and the St. Andrew Society (Glasgow), and praying for the establishment of a Court of British heraldry for the United Kingdom and the British Dominions beyond the seas, if he can explain why, beyond an acknowledgment of receipt and an intimation that the petition would be forwarded, no further intimation has been sent to that society; and will he state the present position of the matter?
Mr. McKINNON WOODThe petition in question is receiving consideration in consultation with the authorities interested, and a reply will be sent in due course.