§ Mr. MILLARasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Shipping Controller whether large quantities of gin are being shipped from Holland and France to this country and transshipped for export to West Africa and other countries inhabited by coloured native 1182W races; and whether the Shipping Controller has sanctioned the use of tonnage for this purpose?
§ Sir LEO CHIOZZA MONEYA certain amount of gin and other spirits come from Holland to the United Kingdom for transshipment to foreign destinations. It is brought by Dutch vessels, and there is therefore no question of the Shipping Controller allocating tonnage for the purpose. There is a similar trade from France, but the conditions of the trade between the United Kingdom and France are not such as to warrant interference by the Shipping Controller.