1. Sir J. D. REESasked the President of the Board of Trade what amount of tea is now held up at the London Docks owing to want of means of distribution?
§ The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Auckland Geddes)While I have received information that some holding up of tea in the London Docks has occurred recently, the quantity involved is less than half a week's import at the rate at which tea has recently been reaching London. I am, however, unable at 868 present to say whether the information supplied to me is exhaustive. I may add that deliveries in recent months have been in excess of the average.