§ Captain Coxasked the President of the Board of Trade if he will extend every reasonable assistance to small shopkeepers whose business has declined or been closed down as a result of wartime conditions, so that such shopkeepers may be enabled to restart remunerative businesses in the future.
§ Mr. DaltonAs I have previously stated, so long as the present system of licensing retailers continues, licences will be granted as a matter of course to persons on the Board of Trade's Register of Retail Traders who wish to re-establish themselves in their former businesses.