Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce. – in the House of Commons at on 6 March 1929.
Sir Robert Thomas
, Anglesey
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what is the total export and the value of coffee from Tanganyika; and what is the proportion of native-grown coffee for the year 1920 and for the last year for which complete returns are available?
Lieut-Colonel Leo Amery
, Birmingham Sparkbrook
131,899 cwts. of coffee, to the value of £463,420, were exported from the Territory in 1927. 208,622 cwts. were exported during 1928, but the value of this total has not yet been reported. I regret that no information is available which would enable an estimate to be made of the proportion of native-grown coffee in the total amount exported in 1920. In 1927, native-grown coffee mainly from Bukoba constituted roughly three-quarters of the total tonnage exported.
Sir Rhys Morris
, Cardiganshire
Can the right hon. Gentleman say how the quality of the native-grown coffee compares with that of the non-native-grown?
Lieut-General Edward Fitzroy
, Daventry
That is a different question.
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
