jovernment Praised for Removal But Blamed for Method London, Apr. 19.
Sir Eric Geddes, presiding'at the annual meeting, of the Dunlop Rybber Ca, Lid., to-day; said that, in view of the termination of the Restriction Scheme on November 1 next, the Company would put its estates ona feller tapping programme, He approved the action of the Government in ending restriction, but thought that the Government was wrong in ending it without having fuller regard to the interests involved. 'The bare' seven months' notice allowed was really little, if any, better than none at all, nevertheless, welcomed the promised death of restriction and hoped that it be resuscitated. Sir said that he anticipated a Feasonable measure of stabilization of rubber prices after the tempora fry dislocation had passed.
Sir Fric Geddes also stated that the settlement of the cross actions Between the Da Cros brothers and the Dunlop Rubber Company had rrasulted in a financial advantage the company of £350,000.
'A Parliamentary Debate At the end of question-time in the House of Commons, to-day, Mr. J. R, Clynes asked that an early date should be fixed for the debate desir. ed by the Opposition on the "mishandling by the Government' of the rubber question, The Premier, Mr, Stanley Baldwin, replied that he' was so attracted by the title of the diseussion—(aughter)—that he would like it to take place as early as possible. He promised to afford an early date for the debate, He suid that the House would not be furnished with the Rubber Committee's report, from which the Government hud made its decision, before the debate, Later.
The debate on the rubber question shan been fixed for April 26, The Teader of the Labour Party, Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, is expected to ead the attuek of the Opposition.
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