§ MR. CHANNING (Northampton, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, whether on the Crown estates in the parish of Moulton, Lincolnshire, the rent of farm land has been reduced to £1 an acre, whilst the Commissioners have hitherto declined to make a similar reduction in the rent of the land let to the Sanitary Authority for allotments; and whether the Commissioners will re-consider this decision, and let land for the purposes of allotments at the fair agricultural rent?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Sir J. T. HIBBERT,) OldhamThe farm from which the allotment land was taken is a straggling one, being some four miles in length, and comprises land of a most varied description, some of which is not only far from accessible but is also very liable to floods. That taken for allotments is valuable and is near the village, and having regard to the allowance which it was necessary to make to the tenant in order to obtain possession of it, and to the outlay necessary to adapt the land for letting in allotments, the Commissioners of Woods could not let it at less than the rent fixed without incurring an actual loss.