§ Colonel Ropnerasked the Minister of Agriculture whether it is intended that the large dairy combines, multiples, and cooperative societies shall be subject to the regulations to be imposed on wholesalers under the Government's Poultry Industry Bill; and whether the proposed regulations for grading and packing home-produced eggs apply to imported eggs?
§ Sir R. Dorman-SmithUnder the Poultry Industry Bill as drafted, organisations of the kind to which my hon. Friend refers in the first part of the question will not be subject to the regulations governing wholesalers if, in fact, they effect no sales of poultry products otherwise than by retail. As regards the latter part of the question, the primary object of the measures of standardisation contemplated is to assist1830W the home poultry industry, and it is not proposed that the commission's regulations as to grades shall apply to imported products.