§ 21. Mr. Carsonasked the Minister of Food why 700 barrels of fruit pulp are lying rotting in the open at Sandwich; and what is or was the value of this pulp.
§ Dr. SummerskillThis stock is the unsold portion of a quantity of home-grown plum pulp which was packed in the summer of 1946 as a reserve for jam manufacturers until the following season's crop had been harvested. Owing to the heavy plum crop in 1947 this reserve was not needed. The storage of fruit pulp in barrels out of doors is a normal practice; and my information is that although reconditioning of some of the barrels became necessary last autumn the stock still in hand, which is valued at about £5,800, is in perfectly sound condition.