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As Lord Tweedmouth appears to be the owner of half

the ordinary shares in Mena and Co., and as the owners of the ordinary shares appear to control that company, it certainly seems to us undesirable that the firm should receive the contract for beer while be is at the bead of the Admiralty. If it is urged that it would have been impossible

for Lord Tweedmouth to divest himself of his shares owing to exceptional circumstances, then our answer is that the exceptional case might perfectly well have been met by Lord Tweedmouth making the declaration as to the nature and extent of his interest in the company called for in the Resolution which was moved by Mr. Lloyd-George and supported by all the members of the present Government who were in the House of Commons in 1900.