§ Mr. KERR-SMILEYasked the Chief Secretary if he has received representations from Irish farmers regarding flax-water prosecutions; and what steps he proposes to take in order to protect the farmers from these vexatious and expensive prosecutions?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Department of Agriculture have received such representations from farmers, but no steps have as yet been taken in the matter pending the result of the investigations of the Departmental Committee on the Irish Flax Industry. The Committee will sit in public at an early date to take evidence.