§ Major SALMONasked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the frequency of accidents at local fairs, such as the accident to the chairoplane at Henley Fair on Saturday night last, which resulted in injuries to five persons, he will take steps to introduce legislation providing for the periodic inspection by officials of his Department or by the local authorities of all such side-shows, in the interests of public safety?
§ Mr. CLYNESI am afraid I cannot undertake to propose legislation on this subject. It would, I think, be difficult to devise a system of periodic inspection for travelling structures of this kind, and I am not sure that the effect might not be to weaken in some degree the responsibility towards the public for the safety of such structures which at present rests on those who erect them. So far as I know, accidents are comparatively rare.