§ 71. Major Sir HENRY HAVELOCK- ALLANasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he can see his way to provide the members of the Bishop Auckland Co-operative Society, most of whom are miners, with a larger quantity of leaf tobacco, so that they may be on an equality with engineers, shipbuilders, munition workers, ironstone miners, and quarrymen, who are being supplied with an extra allowance?
§ Mr. WARDLEThe Tobacco and Matches Control Board received on the 29th May a request for special consideration from the Bishop Auckland Industrial Flour and Provision Society, Limited, and instructions were given on the 31st May for additional supplies of tobacco to be allocated immediately to this district.