§ 38. Mr. FIELDasked the President of Board of Trade whether he is aware that sugar in bags is carried from Hamburg to Goole in the steamers of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, transhipped at Goole into the railway trucks of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, and carried through out from Hamburg to Manchester at a rate of 15s. 1d. per ton; that the rate for the same class of traffic, sugar in bags, from Goole to Manchester is 15s. 10d. per ton; and that sugar and other imported articles can, by preferential rates, be conveyed from Hamburg into Manchester cheaper than the same traffic can be brought from Goole to Manchester; and whether he will take steps, by legislation or otherwise, to prevent this preferential treatment of the foreign importer?
Mr. ROBERTSONI have communicated with the railway company with regard to my hon. Friend's question, and am sending him a copy of their reply.