HC Deb 02 July 1926 vol 197 cc1480-2W
Captain CROOKSHANK

asked the Minister of Agriculture if he is now able to announce the names of the members appointed to the Commission which will investigate drainage questions in the Doncaster area and the Isle of Axholme, together with their terms of reference?

Mr. GUINNESS

The constitution and terms of reference of the Commission are as follow:

Sir H. C. Monro, K.C.B., late Permanent Secretary of the Local Government Board (Chairman).

Mr. W. J. Board, O.B.E., Town Clerk of Nottingham (representing the Ministry of Health).

Mr. I. Burns (representing the Miners' Federation).

Mr. R. Clive (representing the Mining Association).

Sir W. H. Ellis, G.B.E., D.Eng. (President of and representing the Institution of Civil Engineers).

Major F. H. Fawkes, J.P. (Chairman of the West Riding Agricultural Committee, and representing the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries).

Mr. T. S. Hawkins, M.B.E., M.Inst.C.E. (representing the Ministry of Transport); and

Mr. A. R. Thomlinson, M.I.Min.E. (representing the Mineral Owners' Association);

to be a Commission to inquire into what is known as the Doncaster area, with regard to—

  1. (1) the effect of the working of minerals on the existing system of land drainage;
  2. (2) the efficiency of the existing system of land drainage, quite apart 1482 from the effect thereon of the working of minerals;
  3. (3) the best method of reconciling and co-ordinating such interests as mineral working, agriculture, building, inland navigation, and transport generally, etc., in the development of the area;
  4. (4) any related matter;
and to make recommendations on them.

The Commission will have at their disposal the services of Mr. W. J. E. Binnie, M.A., M.Inst.C.E., F.G.S., and Dr. H. Lapworth, D.Sc., M.Inst.C.E., M.Cons.E., as Engineers.

Mr. H. Meadows and Mr. J. T. Scurlock, both of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, have been appointed as Secretary and Assistant Secretary, respectively, to the Commission, and all communications should be addressed to the former at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, 10, Whitehall Place, London, S.W.1.