HC Deb 27 August 1914 vol 66 cc180-1
104. Mr. GINNELL

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, seeing that Customs officials have no instructions to tamper with goods going to Ireland, he will say by whose orders and on what authority cases of sporting cartridges ordered from Birmingham by Messrs. Nooney and Son, merchants, Mullingar, in the ordinary course of their business, have been in the present month examined, disturbed, and delayed at Holyhead, and again at North Wall, and a charge made for each examination, amounting in all to 10s.; and whether he will have this money refunded and an apology tendered?

Mr. LLOYD GEORGE

As I stated on Tuesday last, my hon. Friend the Secretary to the Treasury communicated with the hon. Member on this subject. I am now sending him a copy of the letter in case it did not reach him.

Mr. GINNELL

Will the right hon. Gentleman say whether he maintains that this money was not charged and paid? I hold the receipt for it in my hand.

Mr. LLOYD GEORGE

I am afraid I can add nothing to the very full answer given by my hon. Friend on the subject.

Mr. GINNELL

That answer was a denial. Is it still denied that the money was charged and paid?