§ 62. Major Wiseasked the Minister of Agriculture how much assistance has been given to agriculture by those attending 1915 school harvest camps this year; and if he expects that such help will be needed again next year.
§ Mr. T. WilliamsI estimate that about 45,000 boys and girls have helped with the harvest this year from camps organised by the schools, and this assistance has been of the greatest value. I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing the grateful thanks of the Government both to the boys and girls themselves and to the masters, mistresses and other helpers who have willingly given up so much of their holidays to organise these camps and make them a success. The need for school harvest camps will be at least as great in 1946 as in the war years, and I feel sure that I can rely on the continued support of the schools.