§ 17. Mr. COCKS (for Mr. CHARLES BROWN)asked the President of the Board of Trade the quantity of hosiery machinery imported into Great Britain from Germany in the years 1929, 1930, 1931, and for the first quarter of 1932?
§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAThe quantity of hosiery machinery, as such, imported into the United Kingdom is not separately recorded. The total weight of hosiery and knitting machines and parts thereof imported into the United Kingdom, and 1630 registered as consigned from Germany, was 1,536 tons in 1929; 854 tons in 1930; 826 tons in 1931; and 615 tons in the first quarter of 1932.
§ Sir N. GRATTAN-DOYLEIs it not a fact that the machinery referred to in the question is German machinery which prior to the introduction of the tariff by the Government was in use for making German hosiery, which was imported into this country by German manufacturers employing German workmen; and is not that machinery now being used to employ British workmen?
§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAI should think so partly.