§ Sir J. LAMBasked the President of the Board of Trade if any of our commercial treaties debar us at present from setting up import boards to control the importation of foodstuffs; if so, whether he will state the names of these treaties; the dates on which they expire; and what action the Government have taken to denounce them or secure a modification of their provisions?
§ Mr. W. GRAHAMThere is no commercial treaty which would prevent the establishment of boards to control the purchase and sale of any imported commodity so long as the sale of home-produced goods of the same kind is similarly controlled.