HC Deb 08 March 1917 vol 91 cc541-2
95. Sir HASTINGS DUNCAN

asked the Under-Secretary for War it his attention has been called to the case of R. L. Stevenson, of Thorp Farm, Hawksworth, a dairy farm of 137 acres, 10 of which are arable, who has been called up for military service and ordered to join on 9th March; is he aware that Stevenson's brother is in the Army and that his father has been certified by the doctor to be unfit to manage a small farm some miles distant from the one in the occupation of R. L. Stevenson; and that the only help on the farm, which carries 45 head of cattle and 59 sheep and produces 100 gallons of milk per day, is given by the sister of the tenant and two youths of seventeen and fifteen years of age; and will immediate consideration be given so that this farm will not have to be given up?