§ Mr. EMLYN-JONESasked the Minister of Agriculture if his attention has been called to the serious damage inflicted every year by game on the crops in the county of Dorset; and whether he will introduce legislation giving tenants shooting rights on their own holdings so as to diminish their losses in this respect?
§ Mr. BUXTONThe answer to the first part of the question is in the negative. I am aware that complaint is made by farmers from time to time of the damage done by game which they are not entitled to kill under the Ground Game Acts, and I have every sympathy with tenants whose crops suffer from this cause. In reply to the second part of the question, I cannot promise to introduce legislation on this subject.