Total Quantity for T otal Quantity for
 MIonth Quantity sold Bay Rum Quantity sold Bay Rum
 Proof Gallons Proof Gallons Proof Gallons Proof Gallons
 1949 1950
 January 4858-2 636-9- 2850-5 25-8
 February 3725.9 1192*8 2678-1 nil
 March 2891-6, 841-9 29295 51-3
 April 3289-9 1364;0 3555-6 53-6
 May 2670-9 665-6 2959-4 nil
 June 4862-7 786-5 1954-9 nil
 July 2905-5 813-7
 August 3678-4 435-9
 September 4200-7 1067-2
 October 1851-8 463-7
 -November. 5505-5 1645-2
 December 6697-5 1576-7
 6. Will Government please state the amount of duty collected" for Rum sold
 for the purpose of making Bay Rum for 1949 when the duty was 1/- a
 gallon, and the amount of duty collected on rum sold for the same purpose
 since it has been raised to 5/- a gallon, to the end of June, 1950.
SReply: Amount collected at the rate of 24- cents per gallon in 1949-$2,605.68.
 Amount collected to the end of June 1950 at $1.20 per gallon-$938.64.
 7. Will Government please say whether, the idea of raising the duty from 1/-
 to 5/- a gallon was considered from a health or revenue point of view? If
 from a health point of view, please state reasons.
 Reply: From revenue considerations.
 8. Will Government please ascertain for the information of this House, what
 other Colonies in the West Indies use Brucine for denaturing Rum used in
 the manufactfire of Bay Rum?
 Reply: British Guiana.
 9. Will Government please consider the advisability of collecting the Ticket
 Duty at the Treasury instead of by the transport agents as at present?.
 Reply: This matter has been discussed by Executive Council on several occasions
 and it has always been agreed that the present arrangement serves'the
 interests of the general public in the best way possible.
 10.- Will Government please.investigate the possibility of making arrangements
 for renters of Crowd Lands to pay their rents at District Revenue Offices, -
 as complaints have been made that it creates a hardship by the present
 arrangement whereby all payments have got to be made in Kingstown?
 Reply: Rents for Crown Lands are at present collected by the Crown Lands
 Bailiffs at the District Revenue Offices. /
 11. Will Government please say how soon it is intended to complete the work
 S started on the approach to the Council Chamber from the gate to the steps
 Sin the Court House Yard?
 Reply: The Honourable Member's attention is drawn to a reply to his question on
 the same subject given at a meeting of this Council on the 15th May, 1950.
 The position is this that we cut out from the Estimates for 1950 the