§ 24. Major Tufton Beamishasked the Minister of Food if he will make a statement on the eight-year Agreement recently signed by him with Commonwealth sugar exporters.
§ Major Lloyd GeorgeThe full text of this Agreement was published in the Ministry Bulletin for 12th January, a copy of which I am placing in the Library of the House. The agreement is designed to provide within the next few years sufficient sugar from Commonwealth sources to meet the greater part of the requirements of the Commonwealth.
All Commonwealth producers of sugar participate in the agreement and it should go far to meet long standing claims for greater economic stability in those producing countries which largely depend on sugar as their main crop.