Siamese Rice (Payment)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Food Supplies – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 24 February 1947.

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Photo of Sir Walter Fletcher Sir Walter Fletcher , Bury 12:00, 24 February 1947

asked the Minister of Food whether the arrangement recently made by the Tripartite Commission in Siam that 50 per cent. of foreign currency received from the sale of the commodity should be paid to the producer or holder thereof, has now been extended to rice.