§ MR. SAMUEL ROBERTS (Sheffield, Eeclesall)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Agriculture whether, considering the scarcity and present price of meat, and the outlook for the consuming public, he can now hold out any prospect of being able in the near future to remove the restrictions on the importation of Argentine cattle.
§ MR. GERALD BALFOUR (for Mr. HANBURY)I understand that the Argentine Government have now proposed and carried an Act which embodies conditions I thought essential for the security of our own herds and flocks to ask that Government to impose within its own territory. No official information on the subject has, however, yet reached me. On being duly informed of the condition in question having been complied with, it would become my duty to reconsider the existing prohibition against 1504 the landing of Argentine fat cattle for immediate slaughter at the port of arrival.