§ 11. Mr. GILBERTasked the President of the Board of Trade if he will state the total value of bird feathers imported into the United Kingdom during last year; and if he will state what was the value of ostrich feathers out of the total, and the value of the same received from India and the British Dominions and Colonies?
§ Mr. BRIDGEMANThe total value of feathers and down registered as imported into the United Kingdom during the year 1919, was £1,519,448. Of this amount, £961,777 represented the value of undressed ostrich feathers, including £959,322 imported from British Dominions and Colonies, none having come from India. The value of other kinds of feathers, including down, imported from India, was £100, and that from British Dominions and Colonies, £91,655.