Lieut.-Commander Clark HutchisonI desire to present a Petition on behalf of 140 of my constituents who were customers of the late Mr. John Anderson, dairyman, 27, Corstorphine Road, Edinburgh, and who consequent upon the death of the aforesaid Mr. Anderson have, by order of the Food Executive Officer, Edinburgh, had their registrations for milk transferred to the Edinburgh and Dumfriesshire Dairy Company Ltd., a subsidiary company of a multiple business registered in, and controlled from, London. The Petition concludes with these words,
Wherefore your Petitioners pray that they may be granted permission to transfer their registrations for milk to independent retailers 2062 whose businesses are domiciled in the City of Edinburgh. And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.May I add that I earnestly hope that their Prayer will be duly noted by the Minister of Food as well as by this House.
§ Petition to lie upon the Table