§ 68. Mr. THORNEasked the Home Secretary whether he can give the House any information about the accident at the new University buildings in Bloomsbury on last Friday afternoon in which four persons were injured, since which the Principal of the London University has died?
§ Mr. LLOYDI understand that Sir Edwin Deller and another visitor were being taken up from the ground floor in a hoist when a truck was pushed into the hoist shaft from the first floor and fell upon the party below. A workman had taken the truck, containing concrete, to that floor and emptied it, and he then pushed it back into the hoist opening without apparently realising that meantime the hoist platform had been lowered for the party in question. Further investigation is being made.