Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Air Force. – in the House of Commons am ar 15 Gorffennaf 1925.
Sir Clement Kinloch-Cooke
, Cardiff East
asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, as representing the First Commissioner of Works, whether, seeing that Nigeria and South Africa produce goat skins equal, if not superior, to any foreign goat skins, he can say why Nigerian and South African skins were refused and foreign skins preferred when the tenders were accepted for covering the seats in the House of Commons?
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