78. Lady Grantasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will reconsider his refusal to issue licences to the Aberdeen Fish Buyers and Merchants Association Limited to purchase sets of boxboards from Sweden in view of the support of these applications by the Ministry of Food.
§ Mr. BelcherI assume that this Question refers to two applications by the Aberdeen Fish Curers and Merchants' Association which were rejected on currency grounds. These requirements can be met by box-boards cut from timber already in stock128W in this country, and in these circumstances the expenditure of the foreign currency involved would not be justified.