§ 36. Mr. COMPTONasked the Minister of Transport if his attention has been called to the death of Richard Claydon, resulting from a motor car collision with unlighted toll gates in Anson Road, Victoria Park, Manchester; and whether he is prepared to order an inquiry into this matter with a view to the securing of some arrangement with the interests concerned whereby these encumbrances can be removed from one of the principal thoroughfares of the city?
§ Colonel ASHLEYMy attention had not been called to this accident. I have no power under the existing law to order an inquiry into the matter.