58. Mrs. Manningasked the Minister of Agriculture whether his attention has been called to a scheme for keeping down the rook population by blasting them from their nests by means of high explosives; and, in view of the suffering which would be involved, what advice he proposes to give to war agricultural committees on this subject.
Mr. T. WilliamsYes, and I strongly deprecate such a method which can only lead to the indiscriminate slaughter of rooks. County agricultural executive committees are being instructed only to organise shoots in areas of dense concentrations.