Colonel GRIFFITHSasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture whether, in view of the shortage of labour for work on the land, he proposes to take any steps to divert the immense amount of labour used in horticulture for work on the land, with a view to compelling owners of glasshouses, nursery gardeners, etc., to produce vegetables and other necessities of life in place of flowers?
§ Mr. ACLANDThe question to which the hon. and gallant Member calls attention is of great importance, but I believe that on the whole owners of gardens are using the staffs which remain to them—which in general have already been very heavily depleted so as to keep up the production of vegetables to the highest point. The County War Agricultural Committees are, I think, always glad if particular cases are brought to their notice to use their influence to secure this result.