§ 26. Mr. RANKINasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what arrangements are being made for the representation of British interests at the conference to be held in the Dutch East Indies on 22nd November to consider the possibility of evolving a rubber restriction scheme; and what is the present policy of the British Government in this connection?
§ Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTERThe information in Press reports is that the 907 Batavia Conference is to be a meeting of officers of the Netherland East Indian Governments from various parts of the territory. There is no question, so far as I am aware, of British producers being represented at the meeting. As regards the last part of my hon. Friend's question, I stated in a reply given to him on the 11th of July the conditions which in the opinion of His Majesty's Government would require to be fulfilled in any satisfactory scheme of control.