Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 8 December 1949.
Mr Harold Wilson
, Ormskirk
12:00,
8 December 1949
I am aware that some people living near the Five Ash Down Flax Factory have complained of the smell of retting. The possibility of deodorising any gases that emanate from the retting tanks is being investigated at the Flax Research Establishment.
