§ 62. Mr. Tinkerasked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware that the Planet Properties Company, who have acquired land in the townships of Windle and Eccleston, have let it get in a derelict condition; that they have been notified by the Lancashire County War Agricultural Committee to put it in cultivation but nothing has been done; and, seeing the urgent need for all such land to be made use of, will he take steps to have it attended to?
§ The Minister of Agriculture (Colonel Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith)I am informed that the present owners of the land referred to have now arranged with the farmer who previously had the land, to plough it. One field has already been ploughed and prepared for sowing, and the rest will be ploughed as soon as possible.