Major NEWMANasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will ascertain if a Regulation has recently been issued to distillers, wholesale bonders, and vintners by the controller of whisky, or other competent authority, that the clearances of whisky for this month are to be limited to a daily average calculated 634W to be one twenty-eighth of one-sixth of 50 per cent. of the half-yearly quantity delivered in 1916 with the addition of 25 per cent.; and is he aware that in Ireland the working out of the figure to be arrived at is causing difficulties?
§ Mr. BALDWINI would refer the hon. and gallant Member to the reply given by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the same subject on the 9th April to the hon. and gallant Member for Lewisham. The regulation in question was temporary in its operation, and has ceased to have effect as from the 30th April.