AGRICULTURAL PRICES. Memorandum by the Home Secretary.

-2- Grade A Grade B Class 5 etc. Class " 4 District 4. Southern Scotland 115/- per ton 100/- per ton 5. Northern Scotland 110/- " " 95/- " " 6. Northern Ireland, " " 85/- " " Eastern Counties 90/- 7. Northern Ireland " " Western Counties 85/- 80/- " 2. The Ministry of Agriculture for Northern Ireland contends that the present growers' prices in Northern Ireland are uneconomic. 3. During recent months Northern Ireland farmers and their representatives in the Northern Ireland Houses of Parliament have on numerous occasions strongly protested against the present prices, and the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland has been forced to give an undertaking that the position would be fully investigated and all possible steps taken to remove the cause of the complaint.