§ SIR ROBERT HOBART (Hampshire, New Forest)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether His Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests have now selected any works of public utility on the Crown estates on which to give extensive additional employment with a view to giving relief to the unemployed in the present emergency, thus showing an example as great landowners, and meeting the recent appeal of the Prime Minister; and, if so, whether he will state where; these works are situated, and if they comprise the repair 1053 of roads, much wanted and long neglected in the New Forest.
§ THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. HOBHOUSE,) Bristol, E.The Commissioners have arranged for some road-making to be specially undertaken during the ensuing winter at Oxshott, near Esher, also at Alice Holt, near Farnham, if the requisite labour is available. Owing to the refusal of the New Forest Rural District Council to pay any part of the expense, a proposal to make a road in the Minstead District, stated to be much required in the interest of the local public, but which would be of only slight advantage to the Crown property, has been abandoned.