HC Deb 11 June 1917 vol 94 cc629-30W
Mr. JOWETT

asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food if his attention has been called to a resolution passed on the 20th of May last at a joint meeting of the Bradford Retail Fruit, Fish, and Game Dealers' Association and the committee of the Bradford Fish Friers' Section of the Bradford and District Chamber of Trade requesting that greengrocers, fish and potato friers, and hotel and restaurant keepers should be recognised by the Government as entitled to buy potatoes at wholesale prices, and that one wholesale price should be fixed for the new potato crop from 1st July and onwards; and if he is prepared to agree to this request?

Captain BATHURST:

This resolution has been received and will be considered in due course by the Crops (1917) Committee.