§ Mr. O'SHAUGHNESSY (Limerick, W.)I beg to ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, if he can say what protection is afforded to the vendors of Irish salt firkin butter in the Butter and Margarine Bill when it contains more than 16 per cent, and less than 20 per cent, of water; and whether he intends to carry out the recommendation of the Departmental Committee on butter regulations in the year 1902 with regard to this butter.
§ SIR EDWARD STRACHEYThe Bill makes no alteration in the amount of moisture permissible in butter, whether English or Irish, unless it has been made, blended, re-worked or treated in a factory, The recommendation referred to it by 1078 the hon. Member was carried out by regulations issued in 1902.