HC Deb 26 November 1952 vol 508 cc48-9W
83. Mr. Beswick

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will encourage and assist the formation of a co-operative wholesale society in Northern Rhodesia, so that the co-operative consumer societies may have freer access to goods on reasonable terms.

Mr. Lyttelton

Consumer societies with African membership are not yet sufficiently developed to make a wholesale society an economic proposition. Societies with European membership need no assistance to form their own wholesale society.

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