§ MR. BECK (Cambridgeshire, Wisbech)I beg to ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, whether he will inform the House as to the approximate or exact acreage of diseased gooseberry plantations the bushes of which were required under the Gooseberry Mildew Order of July last to be destroyed, and as to the acreage of bushes actually destroyed under that Order; and whether the hon. Member will issue a Return showing the acreage of diseased gooseberry plantations the bushes of which are now required under the second Gooseberry Mildew Order of last December to be either destroyed or merely pruned.
§ THE TREASURER OF THE HOUSEHOLD (Sir EDWARD STRACHEY,) Somersetshire, S.We will endeavour to collect the information for which my hon. friend asks and to give publicity to it in some convenient form.