§ 66. Captain FITZROYasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture whether the Board has received a Report on wages, hours, and conditions of labour in agriculture, including housing, from Mr. Drage, the director of investigations; whether that Report has been printed; and whether he will lay it upon the Table of the House before the Government Bill on housing is considered?
§ Sir A. GRIFFITH-BOSCAWENYes, Sir. The reports of the investigators, together with a general summarising Report by Mr. Drage, have been received, and sent to press. They are expected to be in the hands of Members in about ten days. The Reports were laid before the House on the 11th instant.
§ 67. Captain R. TERRELLasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture whether he has received representations adverse to the differentiation between the minimum wage to be paid to agricultural workers engaged in extensive cultivation and those engaged on intensive cultivation; and whether the Department will give effect to these representations?
§ Sir A. GRIFFITH-BOSCAWENObjections have been received to the proposal to fix special minimum rates of wages for the market garden workers in Essex, and these will be duly considered by the Wages Board, with whom by Statute the final decision rests.