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report as an attempt to remedy the existing fault in the line 

 of communication between the research worker on the one hand, 

 and the farmer and the general public on the other. Sir Arthur 

 also expresses the hope that the farming community and the 

 general public will show by the practical test of buying the 

 volume that the attempt has been successful. 



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In reply to a question in Parliament cn the 30th March, 



the Minister of Agriculture, Sir Arthur G. Boscawen, said : — 



~ . • » £ " The Government have decided that, in 

 Remission of Duty . +u ' 



TT " view oi the exceptional conditions ot this 



on Home-grown r , , 



„ new industry, and the condition or un- 



employment in this country, no excise 

 duty should be charged on home-grown sugar, and the 

 necessary provision for the removal of the existing duty will 

 be made in the Finance Bill of this Session. It is of course 

 impossible to bind any future Government, but in view of the 

 fact that the remission of excise is intended to assist a new 

 industry during the experimental period, it may be hoped that 

 Parliament would not re-impose any excise duty until the 

 industry has been firmly established." 



The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries has appointed a 

 Departmental Committee " to inquire into the origin and 



Appointment of c ^ rcums * ances °f ^ ne recent outbreak of 



-p» . . . Foot-and-Mouth Disease and into the 



Departmental - ^ . . , 



Committee on P onc y an " procedure which was pursued m 



Fcot-and-Mouth deaJing with the disease ' and to report 

 Disease whether any alteration of the methods of 



administrative control hitherto adopted, or 



any amendment of the existing law is necessary or desirable." 



The Committee is constituted as follows : — 



Capt. the Bt. Hon. E. G. Pretyman, M.P. (Chairman). 



A. Batchelor, Esq. 



David Ferrie, Esq. 



F. W. Garaett, Esq., C.H.E.. J.P. 



H. German, Esq. 



William Graham, Esq., J. P., D.L. 



Alfred Mansell, Esq. 



Sir G. Douglas Xewton, K.B.E., M.P. 



Professor John Penberthv, J.P. 



W. R. Smith, Esq.-, M.P. 



