§ 94. Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenportasked the President of the Board of Trade if he will state the total amount of solid salt taken out of the ground in Cheshire in the last two years; and what percentage was obtained from wild brine pumping.
§ Mr. RhodesSome 2½ million tons of solid salt were taken out of Cheshire in the form of brine during each of the years 1949 and 1950; of this about a quarter is believed to have been derived from the pumping of wild brine.