asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will state the average market price at port of calcium carbide for each of the last five completed years?

The average value of the calcium carbide imported into the United Kingdom during the years 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937 and 1938 was 11.28, 10.98, 11.03, 10.88 and 9.57 shillings per cwt., respectively.