§ MR. JESSE COLLINGS (Birmingham, Bordesley)To ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, 1742 date of sanction, and the period of repayment.
whether he is aware that in the case of a recent apportionment scheme for the redemption of tithe rent-charge in the borough of Wimbledon the schedule of assessment and plan are alleged to have 1743 been deposited for inspection on licensed premises most inconveniently situated for those concerned; and, seeing that no opportunity was afforded for any objection as notices were not sent to the individual landowners, as provided in Paragraph 5 of the Memorandum of the Board, dated 25th December, 1906, will he say what action he proposes to take.
(Answered by Sir Edward Strachey.) We are aware that the place of deposit of the schedule of assessment and plan to which the hon. Member refers was an hotel, but we have received no complaints that it is inconveniently situated for those concerned. Notice of the proceedings was duly given as required by the Tithe Acts, 1836 to 1891, and no objections have been lodged with us. Our memorandum of the 22nd December 1906, to which reference is made, refers to compulsory redemption, and not to redemptions of the class in question. No issue of notices is necessary in the latter case.