§ MR. CHARLES DEVLIN (Galway)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he can state if a request has been received by His Majesty's Government from the Canadian Government for preferential tariff treatment: and, if so, will he say what answer, if any, was sent.
* THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (Mr. LYTTFLTON,) Warwick and LeamingtonThere is no record in my Department of any such request beyond the statement contained in the memorandum of the Canadian Ministers printed in Parliamentary Paper Cd. 1299 of October, 1902.