HC Deb 01 August 1930 vol 242 cc914-5W
Major COLVILLE

asked the Postmaster-General, if, with regard to the communications he has received from the National Union of Manufacturers protesting against the prominence given on the front cover of the Post Office Guide for July to an advertisement for Russian oil, he is prepared to take action to ensure that British rather than foreign goods receive prominence in the advertisements appearing in the official publications of his department?

Mr. LEES-SMITH

It is the practice of the Post Office to try to arrange as far as possible for British rather than foreign goods to receive prominence in the advertisements appearing in its official publications, but I do not feel justified in refusing an advertisement of a foreign product, offered in the usual way through the official advertising agents, to appear in a space which might otherwise have to be left blank or used unremuneratively.