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Bournemouth Borough Council Bill [Lords] (By Order)

What I said was that if the pedlars were trading genuinely, they would not have a problem. Of course, the term ““pedlar””, to quote the Act, means"““any hawker, pedlar, petty chapman…who, without any horse, or other beast bearing or drawing burden, travels and trades on foot and goes from town to town, or to other men's houses””," but that is not what these people are doing. Frankly, many of Bournemouth's pedlars have licences from outside Bournemouth, some from as far away as Manchester, for example. I do not know whether the gentleman from London has walked down from London with his wares, but we suspect that many do not. In fact, I am told that one comes in a transit van. We are not going to accept people who are not genuine pedlars or who do not comply with the Act. That is all I am saying.