§ Lieut.-Colonel RUGGLES - BRISEasked the Minister of Agriculture the largest number of families successfully supported on any 300-acre farm in Essex recently converted to smallholdings; and the name and location of any such farm?
§ Dr. ADDISONThe 300 acre farm to which I referred in my speech on the Second Reading of the Agricultural Land (Utilisation) Bill is at Boxted, about three miles from Colchester which, as I stated, had formerly one farmhouse and three cottages but is now supporting 51 families on smallholdings. Inadvertently I said it was established last
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STATEMENT showing the Volume of Exports (Domestic Merchandise) of the undermentioned countries, expressed as percentages of 1924 for each of the years 1913, and 1924 to 1929; and the respective monthly average values for the first nine months of 1930, expressed as a percentage of the corresponding monthly average value for 1929. (Based mainly on figures published by the League of Nations in the Memorandum on International Trade and Balances of Payment). Country. Index numbers of Volume of Exports. Average Monthly Percentage, January—September, 1930. 1913. 1924. 1925. 1926. 1927. 1928. 1929. Monthly Average 1929 = 100. United Kingdom … … 131 (a) 100 99 89 102 105 108 81 Germany (b) … … 197 100 129 143 149 169 187 90 (c) … … — — 136 153 157 188 199 90 France … … 75 100 102 (d) (d) (d) (d) 87 Belgium … … No information. 83 Italy … … 72 100 111 110 97 95 106 81 Czechoslovakia … … — 100 110 111 121 127 (d) 83 Sweden … … 107 100 107 108 126 115 (d) 85 Denmark … … 75 100 99 105 124 130 126 95 Netherlands … … No information. 89 Norway … … 94 100 105 110 113 116 134 94 NOTE.—The percentages in the last column are based on Values, no account being taken of price changes. The only countries for which information on a volume basis is available for the first nine months of 1930 are the United Kingdom and Germany, for which the respective percentages are 84.4 and 96.6, as compared with the corresponding period of 1929. (a) Based upon a comparison of the trade of the British Isles as a whole in 1913 and 1924. (b) Excluding the value of deliveries on account of Reparations, the value of which in 1924 is not available. (c) Including the value of deliveries on account of eparations—not included in the base year, 1924. (d) Not available. Year—I am now advised that the estate was acquired by the county council for smallholdings purposes in 1919.