§ Mr. Rileyasked the Minister of Agriculture whether he can state the present number of approved applicants for small holdings under the Small Holdings Acts; and the number of applicants awaiting interview or standing over and not yet approved?
§ Mr. W. S. MorrisonThe number of applicants approved and awaiting small holdings under the Small Holdings and Allotments Acts, on the 31st December, 1936, as returned by the small holdings authorities, was 1,515, and the number of applicants awaiting interview or standing over, and not yet approved, was 3,325.
§ Mr. Rileyasked the Minister of Agriculture whether he can state the total amount paid by his Department to date 1974W to the Land Settlement Association under the £1 for £1 arrangement for the establishment of 3 to 10-acre co-operative small holdings; and if he can state the number of holdings established to date under this scheme?
§ Mr. W. S. MorrisonThe total amount of the grants from the Development Fund paid, to date, to the Land Settlement Association, under the £for £ arrangement, is £81,976 l0s. 4d. The number of holdings provided under the scheme is 151; in respect of 75 of these, additional assistance, over and above the £ for £ grant, is provided by the Commissioner for the Special Areas, in view of the fact that the settlers on these 75 holdings have been drawn from those areas. The major part of the association's work is at present devoted to the settlement of men from the Special Area on holdings which, apart from the 75 holdings to which I have referred, are financed entirely by the Commissioner for the Special Areas.