§ Major ARCHER-SHEEasked the President of the Board of Trade how many million hundredweights of meat were imported into the United Kingdom in 1911; of this, what was the actual amount of meat imported from the British Empire; and what percentage did this form of the whole importation?
Mr. BUXTONThe total quantity of meat (including the estimated meat equivalent of animals for food) imported into the United Kingdom from all sources during the year 1911 was 22.9 million cwts. The quantity imported from the British Empire was 6.2 million cwts., or 27 per cent, of the total imports.