§ 28. Mr. WATTasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether any arrangement has yet been made whereby farmers in selling their wool clip of 1918 will have some option in he choice of the wool brokers to whom they will send their output, so that they may not be forced to send their goods to brokers who may have acted wrongfully to those farmers in the past; and is he aware that this forcing of sales to particular individuals is a principle that goes further than any other Department has gone since the outbreak of the War?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONI would refer the hon. Member to the replies given to the similar questions put by him on 28th January and 19th December last. It should be remembered that authorised merchants are merely commission agents acting under the direct supervision of the Department.