§ 51. Mr. GARDNERasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the laboratories at the Metropolitan Police College at Hendon are to be used to assist public authorities within the Metropolitan Police area to detect false trade descriptions of articles of food; also, whether it is intended in the near future that the Metropolitan Police are to take part in prosecutions for applying false trade descriptions to goods offered for sale; and, if not, why on the day the police college was declared open an egg-shell was shown under a light which disclosed that two words, namely, Best Danish, had been so far obliterated as not to be visible without this mechanical assistance?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir John Gilmour)Cases under the Acts dealing with 1594 food and drugs and merchandise marks arising in the Metropolitan Police district are not dealt with by the police unless other fraudulent activities are involved. No alteration of the present procedure in this respect is contemplated. The egg-shell referred to was an instructional exhibit.
§ Mr. GARDNERWill the right hon. Gentleman see that too much of the taxpayers' money is not spent in the interests of pure science?