§ Major BARNETTasked the President of the Board of Trade if private consumers of coal in the Metropolitan area, who were urged during the War to burn anthracite coal for patriotic reasons and provided themselves with stoves suitable for such fuel, are now unable to obtain anthracite coal; whether it pays the South Wales coalowners better to export such coal than to send it to London; and, if so, why the private consumer comes only fourth in the Coal Controller's list of priorities?
§ Mr. BRIDGEMANI would refer my hon. and gallant Friend to the reply which I gave on Wednesday last to a question put by the hon. Member for the Edgbaston Division on the same subject.