RUBBER RESTRICTION

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 117, 15 February 1928, Page 11

RUBBER RESTRICTION

ANXIETY IN TRADE Rugby, February 13. The announcement made last week by tlie Government that the Civil Research Committee would inquire into the working of the rubber restriction scheme was the subject of questions in Parliament to-day. The Prime Minister was asked whether, in view of the anxiety and uncertainty in the rubber trade, ! owing to the announcement, he would give an assurance that long notice would be given of any alteration, so that the trade might be able to carry on, in the assumption that the present scheme would continue in force for at least twelve months. The Prime Minister replied: “I cannot anticipate either the nature of the committee’s report or the action which the Government will take on its receipt.”—British Official Wireless. EARLY PUBLICATION IN NEW YORK London, February 13. In the House of Commons, the Premier, Nir. Baldwin, in answer to a.series of questions, said that the . announcement of the decision to inquire into the rubber restriction scheme was issued on the evening of February 8’ expressly marked “for publication in the morning papers of February 9.” Its publication in New York in the afternoon of February 8 was due to a misunderstanding of the terms on which it was given to pressmen and the difference in time between London and New York.—A.P.A. and “Sun.”