Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture. – in the House of Commons at on 4 March 1929.
Sir Percy Hurd
, Devizes
asked the Minister of Agriculture if he will cause inquiry to be made for the information of the Committee on the Channel Tunnel project as to the probable effect on British market gardening, small holdings, and farming of the improved facilities which such a tunnel would provide for competing importations of foodstuffs?
Lieut-Colonel Walter Guinness
, Bury St Edmunds
Until the charges for conveyance of merchandise through the proposed Channel tunnel are announced, it would be difficult to form any reliable estimate as to how the facilities to be offered may compare with existing means of transporting produce to this country.
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