§ Mr. SITCHasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions whether authority has been given to any firm engaged in the wholesale disposal of surplus Army suits to use the phrase Government suit department, without simultaneously disclosing its own name, thereby creating the impression among purchasers of such garments that they are dealing with a Government department or its accredited representatives; and whether such firm can be required to gives its own name in its announcements of these sales in conformity with the provisions of the Registration of Business Names Act?
Mr. HOPEThe answer to the first part of the question is in the negative. The firm in question have been communicated with and state that they acted in ignorance of the Statute referred to. They have promised to remedy the error in future advertisements which they may publish.