MR. GIBSON BOWLES (Lynn Regis)To ask the Postmaster General, as representing the Secretary of State for the Colonies, does the province of Ontario, in the Dominion of Canada, grant any, and, if so, what bounties on the production or export of sugar, or of sugar products, or other analogous products containing in a notable proportion sugar artificially incorporated, and, if so, what is the rate of such bounty; does Queensland grant any such bounties, and, if so, what is the rate thereof; and do any of the other countries included in the self-governing Colonies of the British Empire grant such bounties.
(Answered by Mr. Austen Chamberlain for the Secretary of State for the Colonies.) Ontario grants a temporary and limited bounty for three years only on the production of beet sugar, the term of three years expiring at the end of 1903; Queensland does not grant any such 1307 bounties. The grant of bounties in Australia is now subject to the control of the Federal Legislature. No such bounties are granted in any other of the self-governing Colonies.