§ 95. Mr. Harrisonasked the President of the Board of Trade when the report of the Trade Mission to China, of last year, will be published; and what is the reason for the long delay in its publication.
§ Mr. BottomleyI hope that the report of the Trade Mission to China will be published on 14th February. It is a long term survey of probable trends in the Chinese market, on which the mission worked until the end of last August. When published it will run to 231 pages. In present conditions some delay in printing a volume of this size is unavoidable and this has been slightly increased while maps were being specially drawn. We have also to arrange for copies to be available in China for members of the Chinese Government and for the Chinese Press at the same time as the book is published in this country.