Mr. CHANCELLORasked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that the Croydon borough magistrates have recently passed a resolution that it was desirable to close public-houses and clubs in that borough at 9 p.m., and submitted it to the Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, who refused to recommend earlier closing; that a similar resolution by the county justices met with a similar refusal; and whether, seeing that numbers of Marine forces and of soldiers stationed at the Crystal Palace, Mitcham Road barracks, and Caterham barracks are frequently in Croydon, and in view of the opinion of both benches, he will take steps to have their resolutions complied with?
§ Mr. McKENNAThe Commissioner of Police informs me that he has not received the resolution referred to by my hon. Friend. He has no information that any such resolution has, as a matter of fact, been passed by either the borough or the county justices at Croydon.