§ Mr. GINNELLasked the Chief Secretary if he will state the scale according to which the Estates Commissioners distribute bog among purchasing tenants and other persons when dealing with an estate comprising more bog than is required for such purposes; and if he will state the names of all estates dealt with, or in course of being dealt with, by the Commissioners on which such surplus bog exists, with the estimated area of each tract and the county in which it is situated?
§ Mr. BIRRELLI am informed by the Estates Commissioners that in dividing turbary on an estate purchased by them they allot to each tenant on the estate sufficient to provide for the requirements of his holding, so far as the amount of bog available and circumstances permit. The amount therefore necessarily varies with the quality of the turbary and other local conditions. If there is more bog on the estate than is required for the allottees, the balance is as a rule reserved for allocation amongst tenants on neighbouring estates inadequately supplied with bog, and no useful purpose could be served by giving the information asked for in the second part of the question.