§ MR. NAPIER (Kent, Faversham)To ask the President of the Board of Trade whether, having regard to the recent development of the fruit-growing industry and to the inadequacy of the facilities for transport of fruit on railways, and the rates charged for such transport, the nature of the present classification of goods and their effect upon the Home fruit industry, the Government is prepared at an early date to legislate in the direction of greatly cheapening procedure before the Railway Commission, and giving such Commission power to revise the present classification of goods, and more effectively to deal with rates and facilities.
(Answered by Mr. Lloyd-George.) I may remind my hon. friend that a Committee appointed by the Board of Agriculture has recently reviewed the position of the fruit industry in this country, and reported on the subject last year. The Committee did not think it necessary to recommend legislation of the nature proposed in my hon. friend's Question.