§ Colonel DAYasked the Home Secretary if his attention has been drawn to the recent decision of the Rotherham bench, who held that a straw plaiting plant and machinery was not subject to the safety provisions as laid down by the Factory Acts; and will he consider amending such enactment in order that this type of plant may be brought within the scope of the existing Act?
§ Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKSThe hon. Member appears co have been misinformed. It is reported to me that the justices upheld the prosecution, and convicted the occupier.