6. Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESSasked the President of the Board of Trade whether coal merchants who hold a stock of coal in the public interests as an insurance against fluctuations in the supply will be compensated for the difference in price realisable on account of any stocks of coal which are in their possession for domestic supply on Monday, 1st December?
§ Sir A. GEDDESMerchants will be compensated for losses on coal in stock and in transit, account being taken of gain made by them at the time of the increase in price in July last.