HC Deb 30 July 1909 vol 8 cc1546-7W
Mr. WILLIAM ABRAHAM

asked the Chief Secretary if he will explain how it comes about that Mr. Edmund Hayes, formerly a non-judicial tenant on the Kingston estate, Mitchelstown, has not been allowed the reduction of £85 in the purchase price of his holding, the said reduction having been made on an inspection for value by Mr. Sydney Smith; if the tenant-purchaser will now be granted the reduction in question on the amount of the purchase money; and, if not, will he say why this will not be done?

Mr. BIRRELL

The Estates Commissioners inform me that Edmond Hayes entered into agreements with the landlord to purchase his two holdings on the estate for the sums of £689 and £517 respectively under the Irish Land Act, 1903. The Commissioners, after a full consideration of their inspector's report and the circumstances of the case, made the respective advances applied for, and vested the holdings in the purchasing tenant.