Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture. – in the House of Commons at on 11 March 1935.
Mr Arthur Tree
, Harborough
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he will take steps to have the national mark on beef altered so that there can be no ground for con fusion with the mark on imported meat, the two at present being almost exactly similar?
Mr Walter Elliot
, Glasgow Kelvingrove
There are substantial differences between the two marks referred to by my hon. Friend and, as at present advised, I see no sufficient grounds for amending the regulations.
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