§ 77. Sir W. Wakefieldasked the President of the Board of Trade, if he is aware that silk stockings at two pairs for 1d., at a coupon rate of one and a-half coupons per pair instead of three-quarters of a coupon, the stockings being of substandard quality, were being offered in a Marylebone market recently; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. MarquandI am aware that such offers are being made. There is nothing illegal in such offers in themselves, but I am having certain of the transactions investigated with a view particularly to discovering the origin of the goods sold and the use being made of the coupons collected.