§ 99. Mr. FREEMANasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade as representing the Forestry Commissioners 309 whether, in view of the unemployment in the Brynmawr district, he can include in his planting programme for afforestation an area of at least 1,000 acres in south-east Breconshire?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRAGE (Mr. W. R. Smith)The Forestry Commissioners regret that they are unable to include in their planting programme for this season an area in south-east Breconshire, where they have no land. Every effort to secure suitable land in the district has up to the present proved fruitless, mainly on account of the existence of common rights and unsuitable soil and exposure. Over 1,000 acres have however been planted by the Commission in other parts of the county.
§ Lieut.-Colonel Sir GODFREY DALRYMPLE-WHITEIs the hon. Member aware that, when I asked a similar question before Christmas as to whether the Forestry Commissioners had taken powers in this respect, he informed me that they already had the powers. If they have, why do not they exercise them?