§ 61. Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHYasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Shipping Controller whether lightermen, keelmen, tugmasters, etc., will have an opportunity of combining together to purchase surplus small craft, the present property of the Government, on the same terms as is proposed by the Admiralty for fishermen purchasing trawlers?
Colonel WILSONThe Ministry of Shipping would be prepared to consider sympathetically any practical suggestion on these lines.
§ Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHYIn the meantime will the sale of these surplus properties stop?
Colonel WILSONNo, I cannot undertake that it will be stopped; but I shall be very glad to receive any early suggestions from any hon. Member.