§ Sir A. HOLBROOKasked the Minister of Agriculture if he is aware that upwards of 1,000 acres of land in the parishes of Barton Stacey and Wonston, in Hampshire, have been allowed to become derelict and that noxious weeds on these lands are imperilling the cultivation of surrounding farms; and whether he will take action to ensure that immediate steps be taken to cut and destroy the weeds before they seed over the adjacent country?
Sir A. BOSCAWENThe condition of the land in question has not been brought to my notice recently. I will ask the Hampshire Agricultural Committee to make an inspection and to consider the advisability of serving a statutory notice on the occupier requiring him to destroy the weeds.