38. Mr. EDMUND HARVEYasked the President of the Board of Trade whether the Coal Controller has received representations from the Leeds Industrial Co-operative Society with regard to the nature of the method adopted to fix supplies of coal; and whether he has been able to modify the method to meet the need of the large number of small consumers who are intimately concerned?
Sir A. STANLEYRepresentations have been received from this society objecting to their supplies being based on those of a previous year, but it is difficult in allocating the supplies of the country as a whole to adopt any other system.