§ Mr. STANTONasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether he will order every cold storage company in Great Britain and Ireland to make a return of all goods transferred from the importers to a speculative buyer since 1st December last and held to the order of the same for a longer period than fourteen days, and also all cases in which there has been a second transfer following the first?
Captain BATHURSTThe cold storage companies could not supply the information, and even if it were desirable it would be impossible to call on them to produce it.