§ Mr. Hector Hughesasked the Minister of Food why he refused to grant a licence to the Northern Agricultural and Lime Company, Limited, of Aberdeen, to adapt, improve and extend their buildings and plant for the manufacture of oat precincts, of whose proposed extension of business he has had notice in writing; and if he will reconsider the matter.
§ Mr. StracheyIn view of the present shortage of milling oats my right hon. Friend does not feel able, at present, to recommend the grant of licences for the erection or extension of buildings for the manufacture of oat products, involving a diversion of labour and building materials required for more urgent purposes.