§ Mr. BUTLERasked the Minister of Agriculture whether he can give the House any information about the present state of the negotiations between the representatives of the growers and the representatives of the beet-sugar factories; and whether he proposes to take any steps to assist those negotiations towards a satisfactory conclusion?
§ Dr. ADDISONIt has always been the policy of my Department to refrain from intervention in the negotiations between growers and manufacturers of beet-sugar, and I am not in a position at the present moment to make any statement about the state of the negotiations which are still in progress.