§ 16. Lieut.-Colonel Mackesonasked the President of the Board of Trade if he will instruct the local price regulation committees to give more than three days' notice before considering applications, in view of the fact that local chambers of commerce and other organisations concerned cannot properly prepare their cases in the short time allowed; and how much notice was given in cases 5148/129 at Hortus Corner, Hythe, and 5609/135 at 25, High Street, Hythe.
§ Sir S. CrippsThe practice of local licensing committees in this matter is not uniform. The committee for the South Eastern Region publish weekly notices of applications for licences. Local bodies wishing to make representations in any particular case are asked to give preliminary notice of their intention to do so within three days and to lodge representations within a further period of seven days. A longer period of notice would involve undue delay in reaching decisions with consequential hardship to applicants. The usual procedure was followed in the cases to which the hon. and gallant Member refers, but no preliminary notice was received in respect of either of them.