§ Mr. WATTasked the Food Controller whether any preference has been given, as promised, to men displaced from their situations in the margarine trade in staffing 2017W the Margarine Clearing House recently set up in Glasgow; have, in fact, men under military age been appointed there in preference to displaced men over military age; and, if so, will he see this matter remedied in the future?
§ Major ASTORManufacturers of margarine in Glasgow were invited to submit the names of any suitable members of their staff whose services could be spared, and all such nominations were carefully considered. At present three men of military age have been appointed; two of these have been discharged from His Majesty's Forces, while the third, who is forty-seven years of age and has not yet been medically graded for military service, was already in the employment of the Ministry of Food.