§ Major Bruceasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that Mr. A. Potter of Portsmouth, who served four years in the First World War and six years in the second, opened a 99W small business in Portsmouth on 27th July, 1948, for the provision of stationery and conduct of a lending library; that he applied to the Newspaper Proprietors' Association for an allocation of newspaper supplies, and that despite the need for such a service in the neighbourhood of his shop an allocation has been refused him; and what action he proposes to take in referring the activities of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association to the Monopolies Commission.
§ Mr. H. WilsonThe arrangements for distribution of newspapers operated by the Newspaper Proprietors' Association and similar arrangements by other organisations, will be considered when the time comes to make further references to the Monopolies Commission, but in view of the Commission's heavy programme of work, I do not propose to refer any more cases for the time being.