Hong Kong Textiles

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 22 January 1959.

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Photo of Mr David Eccles Mr David Eccles , Chippenham 12:00, 22 January 1959

In my view, representatives of the Cotton Board are to be congratulated on having concluded an agreement—[HON. MEMBERS: "It is not an agreement."]—between the Lancashire industry and the Hong Kong industry. Assuming that the Indian and Pakistani industries also make agreements, as I hope they will, that should provide the stability for which Lancashire has been asking for a long time.