§ MR. SEALE-HAYNE (Devon, Ashburton)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India, whether he is aware that the Queensland Government guarantees the interest, on sugar factories established in the Colony, and thus enables the sugar manufacturers to produce sugar at a lower cost than would otherwise be possible; and whether sugar thus assisted will be subject to the new India countervailing duties?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIAI understand that the Queensland Government in certain cases guarantees the principal and interest of five per cent, debentures on sugar estates, upon which they take a mortgage. The sugar from such estates, if exported to India, would not be treated as bounty-fed sugar. I may add that at present, so far as I know, no sugar is exported from Queensland into India.