§ Mr. GILLasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the number of prosecutions of firms engaged in 1959W the cotton trade in 1913 for offences under the Factory and Workshop Acts known as time cribbing in the towns of Oldham, Bolton, Rochdale, Blackburn, and Ash-ton-under-Lyne, giving the number of convictions and average penalties in each town, separately?
§ Mr. McKENNAThe figures are as follows:—
Town. Firms. Cases. Convictions. Dismissed on Payment of Costs. Penalties. Costs. Average Penalty on Conviction. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. Oldham 8 201 201 — 265 0 0 77 3 6 1 6 4 Bolton 15 321 243 78 125 10 0 103 17 6 0 10 4 Rochdale — — — — — — — Blackburn 3 30 30 — 20 10 0 13 17 0 0 13 8 Ashton-under-Lyne — — — — — — —