§ CAPTAIN CLIVE (Herefordshire, Ross)I beg to ask tn3 hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, whether he is aware that the Radnorshire County Council, after dividing the land acquired by them under the Small Holdings Act into twelve small holdings, have had to let ten of the holdings as by-takes to large farmers, no small holders being found to take them at the rents asked; and if he can say how many other county councils have had the same experience.
§ MR. MORRELL (Oxfordshire, Henley)What was the original rent of the farm, and at what rent was it offered to small holders?
§ SIR EDWARD STRACHEYI am not able to say. The Board are informed by the county council that the facts are not as stated. One of the holdings has been let temporarily till Lady-Day next to an applicant who already held forty-six acres, but none of the other tenants held more than fifty acres including the land held from the council.
§ CAPTAIN CLIVEDid not most of the applicants already hold over fifty acres?
§ * SIR EDWARD STRACHEYNo, Sir.