§ Mr. Rhys Daviesasked the Minister of Agriculture how many county war agricultural committees have procured steaming apparatus for hire in sterilising greenhouses with a view to increasing the crop of tomatoes next spring; and how many growers have made applications for them?
Mr. HudsonApparatus for the steam sterilisation of soil has been supplied to one county war agricultural committee. The apparatus was hired out by the committee to a firm of contractors, and I am informed that it was kept fully employed by them on work for growers during the season, November to March.