§ Major KELLEYasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he proposes to check gambling in sugar and reduce its price by introducing legislation to restrict dealing in sugar futures as has been done in America; and whether he is able to state that similar speculation is not threatened in tea?
§ Viscount WOLMERI am not quite clear to what legislation in the United States my hon. and gallant Friend refers. According to my present information, the primary cause in the rise of sugar prices appears to have been the report of a prospective diminution in supplies from Cuba. The course of tea prices mainly depends upon labour and weather conditions in India and Ceylon. The
(a) COMPLETE MOTOR-CARS. Year. Exports (United Kingdom Manufacture) Net Imports (Imports less re-exports). Number. Declared Value. Number. Declared Value. £ £ 1911 … … … 4,536 1,804,419 5,731 1,409,414 1912 … … … 5,277 2,023,715 6,274 1,468,474 1913 … … … 7,595 2,396,369 5,581 1,386,908 1920 … … … 5,309 3,936,865 32,968 10,296,731 1921 … … … 2,721 2,325,611 5,422 996,963 1922 … … … 1,931 1,301,416 13,951 2,369,738 (b) MOTOR-CAR CHASSIS. 1911 … … … 735 296,689 6,178 1,571,154 1912 … … … 1,180 437,224 6,890 1,727,042 1913 … … … 1,234 465,283 7,412 1,749,803 1920 … … … 3,124 2,467,680 11,945 4,159,065 1921 … … … 1,041 957,253 3,695 976,461 1922 … … … 1,152 654,592 8,453 1,508,387