§ Mr. GINNELLasked, in view of the complaints of the intentions of Parliament being defeated by the purchase and consolidation of grass farms in the vicinity of uneconomic holdings and landless people, whether the Chief Secretary will say what precautions the Estates Commissioners take against this abuse; whether they prevent it when specific instances are brought under their notice; and whether they will prevent it in the case of Mr. Telson, a purchaser under the Act of 1903 on Lord Longford's estate, now trying to purchase, under his own name or that of his only son, another grass farm on the Pollard-Urquart estate, on which there is congestion unrelievable except by distribution of this grass farm?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Estates Commissioners inform me that if a case of the kind referred to in the question arises it will be dealt with by the Commissioners in accordance with the provisions of the Land Purchase Acts. The Commissioners cannot trace the name of any tenant of the name of Telson on the Pollard-Urquart estate pending for sale before them.