Major BARNESasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade whether the Board of Trade appointed an independent accountant to fix the price to be paid by the British Dye Stuffs Corporation to Levenstein's on amalgamation?
§ Mr. BRIDGEMANI am glad to have an opportunity of correcting the statement which I made under a misapprehension in the course of a Debate on the 8th March. The valuation to be put on the undertaking of Messrs. Levenstein for the purpose of its acquisition by British Dye Stuffs Corporation, Limited, was settled by agreement between the parties concerned in the ordinary manner, and no independent valuation was made on the part of the Board of Trade.