§ Mr. McCURDYasked the President of the Board of Trade whether, before the Bill to amend the Patents Act is read a second time, the Board of Trade will publish the Report of the Engineering Industrial Committee, and the evidence taken by that Committee in 1916 as to the growth of monopoly and the destruction of the shoe machinery manufacturing industry in this country, and as to the methods and operations by which Free Trade and fair competition in the boot and shoe machinery trade is being steadily extinguished?
Sir A. STANLEYThe Report of the Departmental Committee on the Engineering Trades, to which my hon. Friend refers, will be published shortly, and will no doubt be in the hands of Members in time for full consideration to be given to1894W its bearing on the provisions of the Bill mentioned. I hardly think that the point raised by my hon. Friend really affects the Second Reading of the Bill.