§ Major PRESCOTTasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture whether he has been notified that the Tottenham District Light, Heat, and Power Company have recently given notice to the Totter ham Urban District Council requiring the surrender in September next of land known as the Willoughby Farm site, situate in the urban districts of 286W Edmonton and Tottenham, and now being cultivated as allotments under the provisions; of the Cultivation of Lands Order, 1918; and, if so, what steps have been taken to secure the allotment cultivators in the enjoyment of their plots until it is proved to the satisfaction if the Hoard that the land is required by the freeholders for building or other industrial purposes?
§ Sir A. GRIFFITH-BOSCAWENThe land in question was not obtained under the provisions of the Cultivation of Lands Order, but under an agreement between the gas company and the urban district council. The company are acting within their rights to determine the tenancy of the urban district council by giving six months' notice, which is in accordance with the terms of that agreement. The Board are causing inquiry to be made with a view of seeing if a renewal of the tenancy can be effected.