§ 35. Mr. WRIGHTasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether his arrangements for requisitioning the 1918 crop of hay are now completed; what are 419 his intentions and instructions to district purchase officers in this respect; and, in view of the recent wet weather, what provision will be made to enable dairy farmers and stockowners to feed their stock during the coming winter?
§ Mr. FORSTERIt is hoped to publish the Army Council Order in the "London Gazette" on Friday next.
§ 36. Mr. WRIGHTasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether grass is in the Ormskirk district under his instruction being baled and stacked in bales green; and whether this process turns out satisfactory hay, or is much of it found to go mouldy in the centre of the bales?
§ Mr. FORSTERNo, Sir. The local officers are discouraging such procedure in every way possible.