§ Mr. LOUIS SMITHasked the President of the Board of Education, as representing the Coalfields Distress Fund, whether any sum has been disbursed or 1928W promised by the local district committee of this fund to assist the movement started in Sheffield to provide the unemployed of that town with the opportunity of cultivating allotments; and whether, in view of the need for encouraging schemes of this kind, he will bring to the notice of those responsible for the administration of the fund the desirability of giving this movement the maximum possible practical support so far as it affects unemployed miners?
§ Sir C. TREVELYANI understand that, both for the past season and for the coming season, grants have been approved by the Central Committee of the Lord Mayor's Fund for assistance in the cultivation of allotments by unemployed miners; and that in the West Riding area, in which Sheffield is situated, the grant is being administered for the Divisional Committee of the fund, not by a local committee, but by the County Land Agent for the West Riding.