Major Frank Heilgers: 20. asked the Minister of Health whether he will take steps to assist bee-keepers in this country by prohibiting the use of the word "honey" in connection with any substance offered for sale other than honey which is 100 per cent. floral nectar obtained by bees?
Major Frank Heilgers: 2. asked the Minister of Labour whether he is now in a position to make a statement in regard to unemployment insurance for agricultural workers?
Major Frank Heilgers: While appreciating that His Majesty's Government have accepted the principle, may I ask my right hon. Friend to bear in mind that practice is more important than principle, and that the scheme, to be effective, will need to be in operation before January?
Major Frank Heilgers: Can the right hon. Gentleman say whether the increase is caused by the disastrous state of the meat market?
Major Frank Heilgers: Is not my right hon. Friend aware that some horses eat less and work twice as fast as the Flemish draught horses, and will he not do some thing to prevent this unnecessary com petition 7.
Major Frank Heilgers: Education yields slow dividends, and very often one gets no spectacular benefit, but I do believe it is the best trustee security that this country can have. It is welcome news, therefore, to know that the Board is going in for a policy of expansion and is removing the restrictions contained in Circular 1413. I was rather glad to hear that it was the last President of the Board who had...
Major Frank Heilgers: I had not intended to intervene in the debate because I took part in the last discussion in the House on this subject, but, in view of the speech which has just been delivered by the hon. Member for Horncastle (Mr. Haslam), I should like to make it clear that the views he has expressed do not represent the unanimous opinion of agriculturists. As far as I am concerned, I would much rather...
Major Frank Heilgers: May I ask whether the result of the experiments referred to in his reply on 1st May have been published?
Major Frank Heilgers: I should like to echo to a certain extent the appeal which has just been made by the hon. Member for Leominster (Sir E. Shepperson). I agree with the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Swindon (Dr. Addison) that we cannot part with the beet-sugar industry, but there is undoubtedly need for better Government control of the finances that are paid out to the factories. That, however, is no...
Major Frank Heilgers: 16. asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware that, although pigs graded as A and B under the marketing scheme are paid for at prices according to grade, the bacon is subsequently sold at the same price; and whether he will take steps to make the grading and prices correspond?
Major Frank Heilgers: Will the right hon. Gentleman draw the attention of the Pigs and Bacon Marketing Boards to the fact that the reduction of the present number of grades from five to three will probably solve the question?
Major Frank Heilgers: It is satisfactory that the Minister has got this agreement with the Dominions. The only thing in it about which I am anxious is the question of the carry-over which we were told of, with regard to the third quarter and whether, if it is very large, it will not prejudice the Christmas market considerably. I am sorry that the hon. Member for Don Valley (Mr. T. Williams) is not in his place as...
Major Frank Heilgers: 2. asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can give the House any information in his possession as to the proposal, made at the Peace Conference in 1919, to hand over the Zeila corridor to Abyssinia, and the reason why the proposal was not proceeded with?
Major Frank Heilgers: Had there been any proposal to hand over Zeila to Abyssinia at any time prior to the recent offer?
Major Frank Heilgers: 14. asked the Minister of Agriculture wheter he is aware that there was a 21 per cent. increase in the number of eggs in shell imported in June, 1935, as compared with June, 1934; and whether he can state what percentage of these eggs have been put into cold storage?
Major Frank Heilgers: In view of the fact that the industry is extremely anxious lest these eggs should be put into cold storage and produced when production and home prices are at their maximum, will the right hon. Gentleman make further investigation and give an answer if I put down a question next week?
Major Frank Heilgers: The Minister spoke of the danger of over-organisation.
Major Frank Heilgers: I am glad to hear that cheer from the hon. Member for South Croydon (Mr. H. Williams), because he was absent when the Minister referred to it. Personally, I would like to say that this Development Board is the biggest step forward in the planning of agriculture we have had so far. I do not believe that any marketing scheme can survive unless it has some connecting neutral link, as we have in...
Major Frank Heilgers: Would it not be a good thing to settle these Assyrians in Transjordania where they would be a barrier against Wahabi penetration?
Major Frank Heilgers: Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind that, if any transference takes place, the only possible place for the Stud in this country is Newmarket?