§ 13. Mr. C. BATHURSTasked whether it is the practice of the Board to make good to county councils out of the Small Holdings Account unavoidable financial loss upon individual small holdings schemes or 11 only in the event of there being such unavoidable loss in respect of such schemes in the aggregate; and, if so, whether he will state what section of the Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908, authorises such practice?
§ Mr. RUNCIMANThe practice of the Board is to make good unavoidable loss incurred by any county council in respect of its small-holdings schemes in are aggregate. The practice is prescribed by the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury in the exercise of their duty of controlling the payments or undertakings of the Board imposed upon their Lordships by Section 6, Sub-section (4), of the Act.