Captain BROWNasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture whether he will arrange that one member of the farmers' side and one for the employés' side will be appointed to the proposed Royal Commission on Agriculture to represent the agricultural industry of the county of Northumberland, after consultation by the Board with county associations and unions; and whether steps will be taken through local associations to secure the attendance of tenant farmers now earning a living at each branch of farming carried on in this county in order to give evidence?
Sir A. BOSCAWENThe constitution of the Royal Commission on Agriculture is at present under consideration, but I cannot undertake that particular counties will be separately represented on the Commission. The Commission will doubtless receive evidence from representatives of all types of farming, but here, again, I cannot give an undertaking that evidence will be necessarily taken from representatives from particular counties.