§ Mr. WINFREYasked how far the Small Holdings Commissioners had proceeded in securing land for the applicants at Newborough; and, seeing that it is now two years since the men applied for land and nine months since the Soke of Peterborough County Council refused to sanction the proposal of their own small holdings committee for the compulsory purchase of a certain farm, whether the Board of Agriculture could hold out reasonable prospect of the Commissioners securing this land before Michaelmas next?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of AGRICULTURE (Sir Edward Strachey)The Board deferred taking any further action in this matter until the new County Council had been constituted and its Chairman and other officers appointed. The Board now propose to bring the matter urgently to the notice of the Council and they will do everything in their power to expedite a satisfactory settlement. It is not, however, possible at this stage to say whether the land can be actually acquired before Michaelmas next.