Our Secret Laws
SIR, It is a maxim of the English" courts that a plea of "ignorance of the law cannot be entertained. A citizen must inform himself of such laws as apply to him. Last.week a single-banded farmer, farming only a few acres. had an offer of labour made to him. He rang up hii_nearest Labour Exchange, seven miles away, and asked for the latest figures re agricultural minimum wages, overtime, permitted deduction for boaril and lodging. &c. This information was flatly refused him.
It appears that Labour Exchange clerks have been instructed not to tell anyone these figures. If the farmer would " come in " (a round trip -of fourteen miles) he could be shown a' paper giving the desired infOrmation and read it for himself. The figures could not be read to even in the office; let alone over the telephone. This is fact. Would any constitutional lawyer care to comment?—Yours,
a'or Farm, Temple, Nr. Bodmin, Cornwall. D. SHAP.P.
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