§ 42. Captain P. MACDONALDasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will consider approaching Colonial Governments with a view to finding a 921 market for Dominion supplies of milk and dairy products at present supplied to them by foreign countries?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for the COLONIES (Sir P. Cunliffe-Lister)This was one of the questions which was discussed in considerable, detail with the Dominion delegation at the Imperial Economic Conference at Ottawa, and it was agreed that the Governments of several Dependencies should be invited to make tariff adjustments with a view to assisting the Dominion industries. The adjustments have been made, and I do not think that any further useful action can now be taken.
§ Captain MACDONALDIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that Since that time representatives of the milk and dairy industry have expressed the view that this is the only effective means of controlling imports into this country and restoring commodity prices?
§ Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTERWhat I am aware of is that, having gone into the whole matter of all these dairy products most carefully at Ottawa, the Dominions proposed that over a wide range of goods, and in a large number of territories, extensive preferences should be granted, and the whole of those preferences have been granted.