§ Sir HENRY KIMBERasked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that the licensing benches in Wandsworth and other places have refused to sanction structural alterations in licensed premises to enable reasonable precautions to be taken by publicans for the safety of children and the prevention of their admission to the public bar by making separate and exclusive 989W entrances to bottle and jug departments at which liquor may be sold, but not consumed, and to which children may be sent by their parents without danger; and whether this course has been taken under any instructions or hints given by himself or any other Department of the Government?
§ Mr. GLADSTONEThis matter is one entirely within the discretion of the local justices to decide. Neither the Home Department nor, so far as I am aware, any other Department, has any power to give any instructions, or has given any instructions or hints to justices in this matter.