§ Mr. THOMAS - STANFORDasked whether, in the event of there being some improvement in the amount of sugar available, the claims of the confectionery trade to a mitigation of the reduction of 75 per cent. in its supplies will be considered?
§ Mr. CLYNESThere is no prospect of any improvement in the national stocks of sugar so long as the War continues or of a larger quantity being furnished to the confectionery trade than the 25 per cent. of its 1915 allowance which it has received since last spring.