§ Mr. BRIANTasked the Minister of Food whether any steps are being taken to prevent the scramble for supplies of fruit among individual trades, which is cited as one of the main causes of the high price of fruit during 1919 in the Report of the Profiteering Sub-committee on the alleged existence of a combine to keep up fruit prices?
§ Mr. McCURDYIn view of the high price of sugar, it is not anticipated that the competition among the buyers of hard fruits will be such as to cause undue inflation of price.