HC Deb 30 May 1919 vol 116 cc1588-9W
Lieut.-Colonel HERBERT

asked the Food Controller whether the discrimination shown in fixing the price of milk at 2d. a gallon less for the four counties of Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall is to form a precedent for the same treatment of other agricultural industries in these counties?

Mr. McCURDY

No suggestion has been made for differentiation in the treatment of other specific branches of the agricultural industries in these counties. The principle of differentiation on the basis of cost of production in respect of agricultural produce in different districts was already established in the case of potatoes and soft fruit