§ Mr. CHARLES BATHURSTasked whether the Government propose to take any, and, if so, what, steps to carry out the afforestation proposals contained in the second Report of the Royal Commission on Coast Erosion in 1909?
§ Mr. HOBHOUSEThe matter is one which falls within the scope of the Development Commission, and will, no doubt, be considered by them in due course.
§ Mr. C. BATHURSTIf the Development Fund is going to be dropped into this unfathomable well will there be anything left for agricultural development?
§ Mr. HOBHOUSEI should have thought that Government forestry was very closely connected with agriculture.