§ 20. Mr. KINGasked the President of the Board of Agriculture whether he has received a complaint from the Parish Council of Glutton, Somerset, that at Greyfield four gardens have been planted with trees, necessitating their former tenants walking nearly two miles to allotments on which an alternative food supply is to be raised; whether he has powers to prohibit the use of working men's gardens being taken for other purposes than food production; and what action will betaken?
§ Sir R. WINFREYThe Department received a complaint from the Glutton Parish Council on the 22nd of this month. It will be investigated by the Somerset War Agricultural Committee, who have power to deal with the matter under the Cultivation of Lands Orders, in the interests of food production. Such committees have power to prescribe the use to which garden ground should be put.