§ Lieut.-Colonel MOORE-BRABAZONasked the Minister of Labour whether it is the intention of the Government to put into operation immediately the Grocery and Provision Trades' Board's proposed rates of wages before the Committee of Inquiry recently set up by the Ministry of Labour has issued its Report, in view of the fact that bringing into operation the proposed rates will retard the further fall in the cost of living?
§ Dr. MACNAMARAThe rates in question have not yet been submitted to me by the Trade Board. If and when the Trade Board submit them, I am bound by statute to take them into consideration at once, with a view to confirming them, or referring them back for reconsideration, and I shall consider them on their merits in accordance with this statutory obligation.