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Mr. Amery paid a very well deserved compliment to he

Economic Committee. The Marketing Board was ow in a position' to translate into action the suggestions f the Committee. Mr. Amery hoped that the Conference ould consider whether the investigations of the Corn- ittee might not go beyond food-stuffs and concern iemselves with the marketing of raw materials. In peaking of research he mentioned that £25,000 had been ranted to the Low Temperature Research Station at ambridge. This is a very wise move. There is still heated controversy—if it is permissible to use that hrase in the context—about the right degree of cool- ess for the carriage of fruit and other foodstuffs. is essential to let science come to the rescue in trades here the losses are still unnecessarily high.

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