§ Mr. O'CONNORasked the President of the Board of Trade the amounts of block and sheet balata, respectively, imported from British Guiana last year?
§ Mr. RUNCIMANThe imports of block and sheet balata are not separately recorded in the trade returns of the United Kingdom, but the imports of gutta percha and balata into this country during 1931 registered as consigned from British Guiana amounted to 724,000 lbs. of a declared value of £55,000. It is understood that the bulk of these imports consisted of balata.