Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce – in the House of Commons at on 29 November 1933.
asked the President of the Board of Trade whether the exports of non-ferrous metals in the October trade returns are correctly described in cwts. for the present year and in tons for earlier years?
The units of quantity, as shown in the Trade and Navigation Accounts for October last in respect of the exports from this country of non-ferrous metals and manufactures thereof, are correctly stated.
In these circumstances are we entitled to assume that the figures given by the hon. Member for Gower (Mr. D. Grenfeil) last Thursday were totally inaccurate?
They were corrected in the Debate.
I can hardly subscribe to that idea when cwts. are described as tons.
The alteration dates from last January.