43. Major E.WOODasked the Food Controller whether his attention has been drawn to the case of Messrs. Hamond and Company, of Tanfield, near Bedale, in which skins from the identical consignment of sheep sent for slaughter to a Government slaughter-house at Starbeckon the 24th February were subsequently distributed between two firms for disposal, where they were not only differently graded but different prices were paid for skins in the same grade; and whether, in view of the uncertainty arising from such action, he can take steps to revise the administration of the control exercised by his Department in this matter or else remove it altogether?
§ Mr. McCURDYThe answer to the first part of the question is in the negative. The disposal of sheepskins is not one of the operations of the Ministry of Food.
§ Mr. McCURDYCertainly.