§ Mr. JESSE COLLINGSasked the Secretary of State for War if he is aware that British agriculturists pay 13 per cent in rates and taxes on the value of their produce for the support of the Army, Navy, and other national institutions; and if he is prepared to give a preference of 13 per cent to the contractors for the supply of home-grown meat over the contractors for the supply of foreign, so as to put the two contractors on an equality?
§ Colonel SEELYThe reply is in the negative.