HOUSE OF COMMONS

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 February 1936, Page 7

HOUSE OF COMMONS

BRITAIN AS WORLD’S MARKET. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, February. 10. . Jh the House'of Commons, Mr W, ; Elliot’ (Minister of Agriculture)-mov-ed the second reading of the Sugar Industry Re-organisatiop Bill, which proposes .the amalgamation of fifteen existing sugar beet companies under a permanent Sugar Conimission. After stating that Britain now represented fine-third of the world’s sugar market, Mr Elliot said the country was becoming almost an entire world market for some products. Britain’s share of imports of the world’s exports’had risen since 1925 as follows: Wheat' from 27gto 40 per cent.; butter from. 66 to cent.: beef and veal from .64 to.B2.per cent. He said: “We must-seek?a new technique, to deal with the absorption of the world's surplus.” Mr Tom .Williams. inoved a Labour to the perpetuation of the subsidy. He said that the Treasury already had forfeited fifty millions.

MEAT FOR ARMY. (Received February 12, 1 p.m.) LONDON, February 11. In the Commons, Mr. Duff-Cooper said that just over £400,000 was spent last year on the purchase of Dominion frozen meat for the Army and Air Force at home. Tire extra cost of supplying home-killed instead of Dominion meat, was estimated at about £350,000 a year, which apart from administrative dijculties was prohibitive, as far as the Army funds , were concerned. PACIFIC ISLES. Mr. J. H. Thomas said the question of the ownership of the Pacific Islands, Jarvis, Baker ,and Howland, was being investigated.'.