§ Mr. R. Morganasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that a number of trust and insurance companies who are interested in the company's finances have arranged that no burden will fall on the Houndsditch Warehouse Company as a result of the recent imposition of heavy fines for 543W offences under the Limitation of Supplies Order; and whether, in view of the unfairness to other traders who are fined heavy sums for similar offences and are forced into bankruptcy, he will take action to ensure that the operation of the Order will be as effective in the case of large businesses as in the case of small private traders?
§ Mr. DaltonI am informed that Mr. P. Halperin and Mr. I. J. Burstein, directors of the Houndsditch Warehouse Company, Limited, and its subsidiaries, propose to pay the fines and costs ordered to be paid by these companies. If my hon. Friend has any evidence that, in fact, other interested parties are making themselves responsible for these payments, I shall be much obliged if he will let me have it.