§ Ordered, That the Select Committee be re-appointed to inquire into the facilities which exists for the creation of Small Holdings in Land in Great Britain; whether either in connection with an improved system of Local Government or otherwise, those facilities may be extended; whether, in recent years there, there has been any diminution in the number of Small Owners and Cultivators of Land; and whether there is any evidence to show that such diminution is due to legislation.
1914§ Ordered, That the Committee do consist of Seventeen Members.
§ The Committee was accordingly nominated of,—Sir Edward Birkbeck, Mr. Broadhurst, Sir George Campbell, Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, Mr. Chaplin, Mr. Cobb, Mr. Jesse Collings, Viscount Curzon, Sir Charles Dalrymple, Sir William Hart Dyke, Mr. Thomas Ellis, Sir Walter Foster, Mr. Compton Lawrence, Mr. Llewellyn, Mr. James William Lowther, Mr. Halley Stewart, and Mr. Angus Sutherland, with power to send for persons, papers, and records.
§ Ordered, That Five be the quorum.—(Mr. Akers-Douglas.)
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House do now adjourn."
§ DR. TANNER (Cork, Mid)Seeing the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his place, I should like to ask him whether the Government have received any intelligence respecting the election at Kennington?
§ No answer being returned,
§ DR. TANNERsaid: Really I must press for an answer, Mr. Speaker.
§ Motion agreed to.
§ House adjourned at five minutes after Twelve o'clock.