§ Sir F. NELSONasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will consider the appointment of a committee to examine the present condition of the rubber-growing industry in the Straits Settlements and Ceylon and to recommend to His Majesty's Government what steps, if any, can and should be taken to preserve the life of this industry, and also to review the circumstances in which the Stevenson rubber-restriction scheme was removed in 1928?
§ Dr. SHIELSIt is not the intention of my Noble Friend, as at present ad-216W vised, to appoint such a committee or to initiate any review of the circumstances in which the Stevenson rubber-restriction scheme was removed.