§ 70. Mr. CURRIEasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether grocers, co-operative or other, can now sell tea at less than 2s. 8d. per 1b.; whether all suggestions of objections on the part of the Government to their doing so have been publicly withdrawn; whether a similar line of action has been announced or is under consideration in connection with other articles of food, such as margarine, for which a maximum price has been fixed; and whether any limitation is placed upon the right of a retailer to raise his price for, say, tea again to the fixed maximum after having once reduced it so as to secure registration of customers?
§ Mr. CLYNESThe retail price of tea has been fixed by the Tea (Retail Prices)
| Cattle. | Sheep. | Pigs. | ||||||
| Oxen and Heifers. | Cows. | Bulls. | Ewes. | Others. | Sows. | Others. | ||
| 1917— | ||||||||
| January | … | 170,000 | 53,000 | 8,000 | 160,000 | 539,000 | 25,000 | 264,000 |
| February | … | 148,000 | 54,000 | 9,000 | 98,000 | 555,000 | 21,000 | 220,000 |
| March | … | 154,000 | 57,000 | 12,000 | 80,000 | 647,000 | 21,000 | 208,000 |
| April | … | 142,000 | 45,000 | 10,000 | 65,000 | 622,000 | 22,000 | 198,000 |
| 1918— | ||||||||
| January | … | 102,000 | 42,000 | 5,000 | 166,000 | 707,000 | 25,000 | 176,000 |
| February | … | 96,000 | 39,000 | 6,000 | 53,000 | 386,000 | 16,000 | 139,000 |
| March | … | 103,000 | 40,000 | 9,000 | 48,000 | 512,000 | 10,000 | 88,000 |
| April | … | 97,000 | 35,000 | 9,000 | 31,000 | 534,000 | 7,000 | 72,000 |