§ MAJOR RASCH (Essex, S.E.)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether the Government will, during the Recess, take into serious consideration the advisability of paying compensation for slaughter in pleuro-pneumonia out of a central fund, instead of county rates, having regard to the extreme un- 407 airness of the present system towards the agricultural interest?
§ MR. H. GARDNER (Essex, Saffron Walden)Do the Government possess any information as to any attempt to conceal cases of pleuro-pneumonia owing to the fear of increasing the rates of the locality where the cases occurred; and whether, as the stamping out of pleuro-pneumonia is a matter of Imperial interest, he will consider the advisability of charging the compensation on the Imperial Exchequer?
§ * MR. W. H. SMITHThe last question is one of which I can have no personal knowledge, and it is obvious that notice of it should be given. With regard to the question on the Paper, I have to say that the Government will be prepared during the Recess to take into consideration the question to which my hon. and gallant Friend has called attention; but I would remind him that the question is not by any means a new one, and that it has more aspects than that which is put for ward with justice.