Former MP for Stafford
I have recently received representations from the Cotton Spinners' and Manufacturers' Association on this subject and I am making inquiries.
I must have the facts first.
I have seen some reports to this effect, and I understand that the local authorities have taken steps to deal with the matter.
I have received no information on the subject, but I am asking the High Commissioner for the Malay States for a report.
The production of rubber in both the Netherlands East Indies and the main British producing territories is governed by the International Rubber Regulation Agreement, signed in 1934.
I think that on the whole the International Agreement is working well.
I apologise for the length of the reply. As the hon. Members will be aware, the greater part of the present season's Gold Coast cocoa crop has not so far come upon the market. At the beginning of the season the majority of firms buying cocoa on the Coast entered into an agreement regarding the terms of their operations. As the growers in the Gold Coast considered that the existence of such an...
I could not answer that. That is a strictly business matter; hut the great thing is that all the firms trading in the Gold Coast will get quotas in proportion to their trade in the past two years. That is the only fair way of dealing with the emergency.
