ICE-CREAM CALLERS

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29262, 21 July 1960, Page 9

ICE-CREAM CALLERS

House Of Lords Limits “Chimes”

(Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, July 19. The House of Lords has been discussing ice-cream vendors’ “chimes” again and this time it has agreed to limit the "chimes” to the period between noon and 7 p.m. This reverses the decision last week to abolish them altogther. An amendment moved by Lord Taylor, who is piloting the Noise Amendment Bill, was carried.

During the discussion, Lord Taylor said: ‘T am told there is a thing called an ice-cream lobby, but I have never seen it nor been approached by it at all and had I been, I should have taken no notice of it” Lord Rea, the Liberal leader, recalled the abolition decision a week ago and thought it “slightly improper that the House, having given its decision, this matter has come up again.” The House was being asked to give an answer again on something it had already decided and he deplored what he called “some patronising comments in parts of the press” about the fact that the House discussed this subject while the House of Commons was concerned with something more serious. He added that ice-cream manufacturers did not manufacture ice-cream because chidren were sweet little things and should be given ice-cream. He understood there had been lobbying by those interested in the money to be made out of ice-cream. Lord Taylor said it was a monstrous accusation. One should not make accusations against an industry merely on hearsay. Lord Rea said it seemed improper that one section of the industry should be protected in an Act of Parliament and others left out

Lord Silkin said: “This amendment is not put down in the interest of the small trade. The big ic-cream merchants are behind this.”

Lord Taylor denied that the amendment was tabed in the interests of the ice-cream traders. It was put down in the hope of abating noise to the greatest extent that could be hoped for in an Act of Parliament