§ MR. CAINE (Cornwall, Camborne)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether he will explain why ashes from the brass foundry and rolling mills of the Royal Laboratory and other factories at Woolwich are sold at £6 2s. 6d. per ton; will he state what are the component parts of such ashes which give them so high a value; and will he cause such changes to be made in the processes producing the ashes as will prevent such waste for the future.
LORD STANLEYThe ashes are being sold at £6 7s. 6d. and £7 7s. 6d. a ton. They contain some splashes of metal, the larger of which are recovered. It would be expensive to pick it all out and reduce it. There is no waste, as there is every reason to believe that the fair value of the stuff is obtained.
§ [No answer was returned.]