Mr. COLLINSasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer why a travelling trader 263W holding a licence for the sale of tobacco, who attends fairs and markets in different parts of the country, is obliged to obtain from the Inland Revenue authorities and pay for a permit in each place in which he carries on his business to sell tobacco; and whether he will consider the desirability of revising this practice so that the licence itself shall be a sufficient authorisation to trade wherever the dealer may be?
§ Mr. BALDWINA tobacco dealer is required by law to take out a licence for each set of premises at which he sells tobacco, but if he also wishes to make occasional sales at fairs and markets he is allowed to do so on taking out special licences, for which he pays at the rate of fourpence a day. I am not prepared to adopt the proposal made in the second part of the question.