asked the President of the Board of Trade whether any arrangements have yet been arrived at in this country to deal with the Australian concentrates and produce sulphuric acid and spelter which are necessary for the purposes of the War; and if anything has been settled as to ground for the purpose either in Avonmouth, Widnes, or Norway?

Arrangements have already been made for the treatment of a quantity of the Australian zinc concentrate. at works to be erected at Avon mouth, and negotiations for the treatment of further quantities at Widnes and possibly elsewhere are in progress; but no suggestion for this treatment in Norway has been made in any quarter so far as I have been able to ascertain.