Sir DAVID DAVIESasked the Food Controller what are the duties of the cattle and sheep dealers in removing stock from the producing areas to the distributing markets supplying the industrial centres, their scale of remuneration, and the amount paid to these dealers in the six counties of North Wales to the 31st December, 1919?
Mr. ROBERTSDealers from Manchester and Birmingham are commissioned by the Ministry of Food to attend the markets of North Wales in order to collect any surplus supplies of live stock for consumption in these industrial areas. Their remuneration is based on the following scale:
- Cattle—
- Five shillings per head on the first twenty.
- Two shillings and sixpence per head on the next twenty.
- One shilling per head on any excess over forty.
- Sheep—
- Ninepence per head on the first 100.
- Sixpence per head on a further 200.
- Threepence per head on any excess over 300.
The amount paid to these dealers in respect of all the markets in the six counties of North Wales to the 31st December, 1918, was £1,328 4s.