HOP INDUSTRY.

Bush Advocate, Volume XX, Issue 1004, 16 April 1908, Page 5

HOP INDUSTRY.

.■-■■■■■■■ - - •"<»•-'• ■■•. , -■■■■..-.... Tress Assn— By telegraphs-Copyright. LONDON, yesterday. Sir Gilbert Parker, in the House Commons, directed attention to the" ruin of ihe Keni hop industry by the' dumping of 8000 tons of American "hops in thfe JThited^Kingdom, in a few weeks. ■ - : ■~ - : ..'"^ "'_ ■■■'•'■•'''.--..' ■The j Hon ; Lloyd George deprecated the. exaggeration, and attributed the difficulties in the .British sshadustry largely to the development in labor saving machinery arid t¥e use of hop substitutes. He jocularly suggested that- the jbrewers . should show (their patriatiismrby only^using British* hops and await the result of the select opmmittee of enquiry^'- =■ .• .-., ? r The Commons i adiourried'itiitil 27th.