§ 5. Mr. ATKEYasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that the Midland Railway Company have refused to issue to the workmen employed on the night shift by Messrs. Harwood, Cash and Company, Limited, of Mans field, Notts, weekly tickets from Notting ham to Mansfield, and that this refusal entails hardship upon these men, who are all demobilised soldiers living in Notting ham, and for whom no housing accommodation is available at Mansfield; and whether, seeing that, for day workers tickets are issued available to travel from Nottingham in the morning and returning in the evening, and in view of the fact that the refusal to issue weekly tickets not only presses hardly on the men affected, but prevents others being employed, the Railway Executive Committee propose to take any action to secure facilities for these workmen?
§ Sir A. GEDDESI am in communication with the railway company in this matter, and I will let the hon. Gentleman know the result.