§ 51. Mr. Tolleyasked the Minister of Agriculture on whose authority 40 W.L.A. girls at Clent were forced to leave the hostel in which they resided to make accommodation for German prisoners of war; and if he is aware that owing to this treatment the girls have threatened to resign.
§ Mr. T. WilliamsBy arrangement between the County War Agricultural Executive Committee and the local organiser of the W.L.A. the occupants of the hostel at Clent, which was not in full use, have been transferred to other partially occupied W.L.A. hostels in Worcestershire, The accommodation thus freed is to be used for housing German prisoners of war who are needed to meet a serious shortage of male labour for heavy agricultural work in the district. The members of the Women's Land Army affected by this changeover have now been satisfactorily settled in their new quarters.