Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Food Supplies – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 10 November 1947.
Mr Evelyn Strachey
, Dundee
12:00,
10 November 1947
The approximate f.o.b. cost of arrivals in the United Kingdom of tinned, dried and fresh fruits from the dollar area during the months of August, September and October was about £1,249,000. As the House knows we have, unfortunately, had to discontinue these purchases.