§ Mr. NOEL BUXTONasked whether proposals for schemes to be laid before the Development Commissioners have been received from local sea fishery committees; whether the Board will publish these proposals; and whether the Board has laid its own proposals before the Development Commissioners for the assistance of inshore fishermen?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of AGRICULTURE (Sir Edward Strachey)Applications for advances from the Development Fund have been made by four sea fisheries committees. It will be the duty of the Board to report to the commissioners respecting them, but neither the applications nor the reports will be published at the present stage. The reply to the concluding inquiry is in the affirmative.