§ Sir B. PETOasked the President of the Board of Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Messrs. Harrods, Limited, of Knightsbridge, are selling cartridges the cases and caps of which were manufactured abroad but which were filled in this country; that these cartridges bear in large type the name of the firm and in small type the words "Filled in Great Britain"; and whether he will institute a prosecution against this firm under the Merchandise Marks Act as the wording is of a kind calculated to deceive the purchaser?
§ Mr. RUNCIMANI have seen a specimen cartridge which is marked "Loaded in Great Britain." I am informed that a considerable proportion of the cost of these cartridges is attributable to British labour and materials, and I am advised that in the circumstances the use of the name of this British firm on the cartridges is not an offence against the existing law.