HC Deb 28 April 1910 vol 17 cc626-7
Mr. GOLDMAN

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether Article 24 of the Treaty of London, declaring docks and their component parts to be conditional contraband, applied to granite; and, if it did not, would he state what were the component parts of docks to which the article referred?

Mr. McKINNON WOOD

The first part of the hon. Member's question has already twice been answered, and I have nothing to add on this point to what I said in reply to his questions on 9th March and 7th April. As regards the second part or the present question, I may mention lock gates and the machinery for working them as constituting "parts of docks."

Mr. GOLDMAN

Is it not a fact that the essential component parts of docks are timber, cement, granite, and granite in particular; and why should gates be the only component part subject to contraband?

Mr. McKINNON WOOD

That precise question has been twice answered in reply to questions by the hon. Gentleman.