§ Colonel Baldwin-Webbasked the Minister of Agriculture whether it is the policy of the Pigs Marketing Board to comply with the wishes of producers with regard to a named curer?
§ Mr. W. S. MorrisonThe Bacon Industry Act provides that where a producer has nominated a curer as the person to whom he wishes his pigs to be sold, the Pigs Marketing Board may not cause the pigs to be sold otherwise than to that curer, except in the circumstances specified in a notice which the Board is required to publish at the same time as offers are invited from producers. I am sending my hon. and gallant Friend a copy of the relevant notice issued in connection with this year's offer of contracts.
§ Colonel Baldwin-Webbasked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware that the Pigs Marketing Board has not accepted the nominated curer in the case of a contract offered by Mr. Frank Corbishley, of Grindle House, Shifnal, Shropshire; whether he will give the reason of such non-acceptance; and whether any extra cost will be incurred by the Board by reason of an increased distance between the farm and the factory in respect of this contract?
§ Mr. W. S. MorrisonI am informed that Mr. Corbishley attached to his offer to sell pigs under a "nominated curer" contract, a stipulation which the Pigs Marketing Board could not properly accept, and that from a letter subsequently received from Mr. Corbishley the Board understood that he left his offer unconditionally with the Board. An "open offer" contract was made by the Board on Mr. Corbishley's behalf, in accordance with which he will receive an allocation premium of 2S. per pig. As to 1017W the last part of the question, no extra expense will be incurred by the Board.
§ Colonel Baldwin-Webbasked the Minister of Agriculture how many contracts for which Messrs. J. C. Lloyd and Son, Limited, of Park Street, Shifnal, have been nominated, have not been accepted by the Pigs Marketing Board; and in how many cases Messrs. J. C. Lloyd and Son, Limited, have received contracts where they were not the nominated curers?
§ Mr. W. S. MorrisonExcluding the case referred to in the preceding question, the answer to the first part of my hon. and gallant Friend's question is "none." As to the second part, I am informed that Messrs. J. C. Lloyd and Son, Limited, have received two contracts in respect of
Description. 1934. 1935. 1936. 1937. 1938.* Number Value. Number Value. Number Value. Number. Value. Number. Value. £ £ £ £ £ Mares and geldings. 9,274 450,961 12,895 554,084 15,204 679,315 16,691 1,401,212 9,906 1,214,481 * Ten months ended 31st October only.