HC Deb 18 December 1929 vol 233 cc1445-6W
Mr. ROSBOTHAM

asked the Minister of Agriculture if he is aware that Spanish potatoes for importation into this country are transferred from Spanish railway wagons to French railway wagons at Cebere, a junction on the Spanish and French boundary, and that this station is situate in an area affected with the Colorado beetle; and whether he will consider prohibiting the importation of such potatoes?

Mr. N. BUXTON

I am aware that it is the practice to transfer Spanish potatoes into French railway wagons at the frontier station of Cebere. So far as I am aware that station is not in or near an area affected with the Colorado Beetle, but I am asking the French Government for the latest details of the distribution of the pest.

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