§ 7. Sir Waldron Smithersasked the Minister of Food why he is importing carrots from Italy and France, when acres of Fen carrots could not be sold, and Yorkshire carrots are being fed to cattle.
§ Mr. StracheyI am not importing carrots; those now coming in are early carrots bought by private traders under licence, and do not compete with the old crop. There is a guaranteed market for home-grown maincrop carrots under which we bought all carrots offered by growers before 29th February: only those which have deteriorated are being sold for stockfeeding.
§ Sir W. SmithersIs the Minister aware that a prominent distributor in London had a telegram from Yorkshire the other day asking "Can you sell some car rots?" Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the rules of Order prevent me from saying what I think of him and his methods?