asked the Minister for Agriculture if he will state the approximate quantity of bacon at present on the hands of curers and also the quantity which was on hands at the corresponding date last year.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Bacon Curers' Stocks.
The figures relating to the quantity of bacon at present on the hands of curers will not be available until the middle of the month. The quantity of bacon held by curers on the 30th September, 1940, was 64,690 cwts., as compared with 57,800 cwts. on the corresponding date of the year 1939.