HC Deb 08 March 1898 vol 54 c976
MR. HOGAN

I beg to ask the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether he is aware that a strong feeling exists in Australia against the continued application by his Department of the phrase "Foreign" to meat imported from the Colonies into the British Isles; and whether he will in future restrict the use of that phrase to meat coming from beyond the boundaries of the Empire?

MR. POWELL-WILLIAMS

I am very glad to receive the intimation conveyed by the Question of the strong and universal feeling which exists in favour of the unity of the Empire, and I will be careful in future not to speak of meat coming from the Colonies as "foreign meat."

CAPTAIN A. J. C. DONELAN (Cork, E.)

Is the hon. Gentleman aware that, by whatever title the meat is called—

MR. SPEAKER

Order, order!