WAR SUPPLIES
BILL BEFORE THE HOUSE OF COMMONS LIST OF COMMODITIES RESTRICTED. NO ADDITION WITHOUT FURTHER LEGISLATION. By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. (Recd This Day. 12.50 p.m.) RUGBY, June 2. Today’s business in the House of Commons was the Essential Commodities Reserves Bill, conferring important new powers on the Board of Trade and giving retrospective authority for purchases already made by the Government for storage against a national emergency.
Moving the second reading the Rt Hon Oliver Stanley said there was no dispute as to the desirability of the Government being in a position to accumulate stocks of essential commodities for use in a possible emergency. The schedule of the Bill enumerated the commodities which might be declared essential. These were limited to foodstuffs, forage for animals, fertilisers and petroleum. Further legislation would be necessary to add to the list. The Bill passed its second reading without a division.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1938, Page 8
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