ANSWERS TO PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, 26 October 1916, Page 5

ANSWERS TO PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS.

LONDON, Oct. 24. - In the House of Commons, Mr .Lloyd George stated that a committee was enquiring into the question of utilising prisoners on war work of national im-

portance.1

Mr Runciman stated that" the rates for carriage on non-refrigerated products from New Zealand and Australia wore moderate, and had not been altered for eighteen months.

In the House of Lords, Lord Newton announced that arrangements had been completed for. an Anglo-German exchange of prisoners over 45 years of age. This means that the British Empire will surrender 7000 and Germany 700. \