Sir F. HALLasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that the Order which has been made doing away with the old established right of newsagents to return newspapers not sold to the publishers and obtaining credit therefore presses very hardly upon many small shopkeepers; and whether, considering the difference of the circumstances which are now prevailing as compared with the period previous to the Armistice, he will undertake at the earliest possible moment to have this Order rescinded?
§ Mr. BOWERMANasked the President of the Board of Trade whether, with increasing paper supplies, it is the intention of the Paper Controller to rescind the No-Returns Order, thereby reverting to the sale-or-return system prevailing prior to the War?
§ Mr. BRIDGEMANThe No-Returns Order is under consideration. At the moment I am not in a position to make any announcement, but I expect to do so at an early date.