§ 37. Mr. GULLANDasked the Minister of Munitions, as representing the Liquor Control Board, whether, in view of the promise made that no spirits should be sold in Gracie's Banking Tavern, at Annan, he will undertake that this existing restriction shall not be overturned without the consent of the Annan local advisory committee?
§ Dr. ADDISONThe facts are that on the 3rd August last the local advisory committee recommended that for the present no spirits should be sold in Gracie's Banking Tavern, and that the Board have acted since the opening of the tavern on this recommendation. The matter is now again under consideration by the local committee, and the Board will give full weight to any recommendation which they may make.
§ Mr. GULLANDWill the right hon. Gentleman guarantee that this will not be done without the consent of the local committee?
§ Dr. ADDISONNo; I could not give that guarantee. We shall pay the greatest possible attention to their recommendation, of course.
§ Mr. GULLANDWas not this tavern agreed to by the local committee on the distinct understanding that spirits would not be sold there?
§ Dr. ADDISONAll those understandings will be taken into account.
§ Mr. GULLANDWill they be adhered to?
§ Mr. PRINGLEIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that no attention is given to those understandings?
§ Dr. ADDISONI will be glad if the hon. Gentleman gives me a case where no attention has been paid to an understanding.
§ Mr. PRINGLEPlenty of them.