§ Brigadier-General Clifton Brownasked the Minister of Fuel and Power whether he is aware of the interference with harvest and autumn seeding operations caused by having to cart coal and coke in small lots to farms and country houses connected with agriculture; and whether he will arrange for a year's ration of coal and coke to be given priority to be drawn in bulk in May and early June, on the recommendation of their war agricultural committees, to avoid loss of crops and to save petrol.
Major Lloyd GeorgeExisting instructions to Local Fuel Overseers already pro-
212Wshowing the number of persons employed, the output of saleable coal raised, the average number of shifts worked per week, the ascertained pit-head price and the average wage per ton and per shift for each half-yearly period from 1936 to the latest available date.
Major Lloyd GeorgeFollowing is the information:
vide for special consideration to be given to farms and other isolated premises in building up winter coal supplies during the summer. So far as the supplies position permits, all consumers who can stock a year's supply will be allowed to do so during this summer, though it may not be possible to put these arrangements into force as early as May or June.