§ 21. Sir GERALD STRICKLANDasked the Secretary of (State for the Colonies whether he will lay before the Board of Trade the special circumstances of Malta, Gozo, and St. Helena, with reference to lace as a household industry, largely organised by charitable enterprise as the means of living at below the wage necessary to maintain health for a large number of women and children, with a view to the complete exemption from duty of hand-made lace from those islands?
§ Mr. AMERYI have already brought to the notice of the Board of Trade and Treasury the special circumstances of these industries, but I fear that it would not be possible to give lace produced in any particular Colony more favourable treatment than lace from other sources within the Empire.
§ Captain WEDGWOOD BENNThen it comes to this—that the new proposal is one to tax an Imperial product?