§ 56. Colonel Stoddart-Scottasked the Minister of Food what price per ton was received for the 2,986 tons of Irish seed potatoes landed at Preston and sold for stock feeding, and which cost his Department £14 10s. per ton; and what was the total loss to the taxpayer of this transaction.
§ Mr. Strachey119 tons were sold at 85s. per ton, 20 tons at 80s. and the rest at 75s.; the total loss involved in providing this essential reserve for late planting was £32,747.
§ 61 and 62. Mr. D. Marshallasked the Minister of Food (1) how many tons of Danish potatoes have been landed in the last month at Plymouth;
(2) how many tons of Cornish new potatoes have been loaded for Germany in the last month at Plymouth.
§ Mr. StracheyEight hundred and twenty-one tons of Polish—not Danish—old potatoes which were in stock in Middlesbrough were shipped to Plymouth to meet demands from fish friers who do not use new potatoes. Seven thousand five hundred and fifty-two tons of Cornish new potatoes have been sent to Germany from that port.