§ Major ASTORasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture if, in an official publication, any list of makers of milking machines has been tabulated; and whether they have made arrangements with the Ministry of Munitions for the delivery of milking machines and other labour-saving machinery and implements used in agriculture?
§ Mr. ACLANDNo official list of makers of milking machines has been made, but information as to the leading machines is readily obtainable from the usual trade sources. The Ministry of Munitions are868W doing everything that is possible, on the representations which have been made to them by the Board, to facilitate the supply of material required by traders for the manufacture of agricultural implements and machinery, and the Board are pressing them to allow makers of such implements and machinery, where they are controlled firms, to devote more time to their normal business, but the Ministry have no control over the delivery of the manufactured article.