§ MR. JESSE COLLINGSasked the Vice President of the Committee of Council, If he is aware that the trustees of the charity land at Flawton are about to let the land by tender instead of offering it to the labourers in the district, as directed by the Allotment Extension Act, 1882; and, whether the Charity Commissioners will take immediate steps to compel the trustees to carry out the Act?
§ MR. MUNDELLAThe attention of the Charity Commissioners was first called to this case by the Allotments Extension Association on the 18th of March. On the 25th of March the Commissioners inquired of the Trustees what steps they had taken to bring the Allotments Extension Act into operation. No answer has yet been received by the Commissioners to that letter. The Commissioners have already addressed another letter to the Trustees asking for information as to the circumstances of the proposed letting, and reminding them of the obligation imposed upon them in respect of letting the charity land by the Allotments Extension Act, 1882.
§ MR. JESSE COLLINGSasked, whether, seeing that this land, if once let, would be beyond the power of the labourers altogether, the right hon. Gentleman would undertake to send a telegram to stop the letting?
§ MR. MUNDELLAsaid, he had no power or authority to do so.