SIR WALTER FOSTERI beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether ho can state the area of corporate land sold during the last year under instruments issued by the Local Government Board, and the amount received from such sales and invested in funded property as required by the Local Government Board.
MR. LONGThe Local Government Board have during the year 1900 approved of the sale of about forty acres of corporate land, the value being about £66,000. The Board are not in possession of information showing the extent to which these lands have been actually sold and the proceeds invested.