§ 41. Sir R. HAMILTONasked the Secretary for Scotland when the Appendix to the Report of the Land Court for 1024 will be available; what the cost of the volume will be to the public; how many copies of the Appendix to the 1923 Report wore sold; and whether he is aware that the present system of cyclostyling the Appendix results in an unwieldly volume that is inconvenient for use by the Court and priced at a figure beyond the means of the ordinary public?
§ Sir J. GILMOURIt is hoped that the Appendix to the Report of the Land Court for 1924 will be available in the first week of next month. The price of the Appendix will be 30s. Sixteen copies of the Appendix to the 1923 Report were sold. I am aware that the cyclostyled 1136 Appendix is somewhat larger than a corresponding printed volume would be, but I do not consider that any inconvenience thereby caused is such as to warrant the imposition on the taxpayer of the considerable additional cost of printing the volume, for which there is a very small public demand.
§ Sir R. HAMILTONIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that there is only a very small public demand for a volume costing 30s., and is it not false economy that the information contained in this Appendix should be kept from the people who are most concerned with it?
§ Mr. SPEAKERThat is argument.