§ Colonel DAYasked the Minister of Labour whether he can give the figures as at the 18th July of the unemployed upon the register of the Borough, Walworth Road, Employment Exchange?
§ Sir A. STEEL-MAITLANDThe following table shows the number of persons on the registers of the Borough Employment Exchange at 18th July, 1927:
from the factory dried beet pulp of an amount equal in weight to 5 per cent. of the total net weight of beets delivered by them, at the price of £5 per ton ex factory, provided the option is exercised, in writing, before 1st August, and the grower undertakes to use upon his own farm the dried beet pulp so purchased. I am informed that growers have not taken full advantage of this facility in the past and that, in fact, less than one-quarter of the dried pulp to which growers were entitled last year was purchased by them.
1261WThe two large groups of factories have this year undertaken an extensive propaganda, through the Press and otherwise, to bring to the attention of farmers the importance of sugar-beet pulp as a food for stock, and I understand that satisfactory results have followed this publicity. I see no necessity, therefore, to intervene.