40. Mr. Rostron Duckworthasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food why, in view of his undertaking that if the trade would undertake to supply priority consumers he would restrict all United States of America evaporated milk for distribution to the public to milk distributors as compensation for the loss the trade would incur in redirecting the turnover of milk, he has now decided to entrust such milk for wholesale distribution to grocer-wholesalers and not to wholesale milk distributors?
§ 41. Mr. R. Morganasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food why, in view of the unsatisfactory results arising from the official mixing of the sale of commodities by firms which have not previously handled them, he proposes to distribute evaporated milk, to be sold at the door to supplement liquid milk, through the wholesale grocers who have hitherto only sold condensed milk in across-the-counter trade?
Major Lloyd GeorgeUnited States evaporated milk will be handled by the normal trade channels accustomed to deal in condensed milk, except at the point of sale to the consumer. The decision that it should be sold through the retail dairyman rather than the retail grocer was taken solely to ensure that it is distributed to non-priority consumers in direct 1620 association with liquid milk. There is no question of compensation for loss of turnover, as the whole of the supply of liquid milk available during the winter will continue to be handled by the wholesale and retail milk distributors.