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Pitprops (Prices)

Volume 467: debated on Thursday 28 July 1949

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44.

asked the President of the Board of Trade why the price of home-grown pitprops is controlled at a price so much below the price of imported props that it is not possible to produce home-grown props of comparable quality, and thereby save foreign exchange.

I do not agree that producers of pitprops cannot within the present maximum controlled price make a home-grown article comparable with the imported. I am naturally anxious to save imports and encourage the thinning of woodlands through the home production of pitprops. The recent increase in the maximum price at which peeled home-grown props may be sold had this object in view.