§ SIR JOHN JENKINSasked the President of the Board of Trade, Whether the Government is prepared to adopt the Report of the Royal Commission on Tonnage to put an end to the gross anomalies between the measurement and carrying capacity of steamships in the future?
§ MR. CHAMBERLAINI have considered and highly appreciate the valuable Report of the Royal Commission on Tonnage; and I am inclined, speaking generally, to agree with the recommendations of the Commission. My hon. Friend (Sir John Jenkins) will see that pressure of other work has rendered it quite impossible to deal with the question during the present Session. I hope it may be possible next year to deal with the whole subject of the law affecting merchant shipping; and, if so, this matter of tonnage will be one of the points which will come up for consideration.