§ MR. SYDNEY BUXTON (Tower Hamlets, Poplar)To ask the Postmaster General, as representing the Secretary of State for the Colonies, whether the Colonial Office will present to Parliament a, précis of the information collected and published by the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies relating to experiments with varieties of sugar cane, and to the chemical selection of sugar cane.
(Answered by Mr. Austen Chamberlain, for the Secretary of State for the Colonies.) Pamphlets giving summaries of the Reports referred to by the hon. Member 1473 are published by the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies, and can be purchased of Messrs. Dulau and Company, 37, Soho Square, for a few pence. It would therefore seem hardly worth while to publish them separately for Parliament. The question of whether these and similar publications cannot be made more widely known is under consideration.