WARWICKSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL 333 



The following have been added : 



a. 



Norfolk 92 



Worcester (Perry fields) ... ... ... 47 



(Littleton) 46 



185 



Up to date, therefore, 812 acres have been acquired 

 by ten County Councils. 



Two County Councils appear to have taken steps 

 to provide land, which resulted in complete failure. 



The Warwickshire County Council, in answer to 

 a petition from Hunningham, took, on a lease of 

 fourteen years, 18 acres of land at 37 16s. The 

 official report of the sequel is as follows : 



*. . . As soon as the draft of a lease was received 

 from the owner, the Council submitted a draft 

 lease on similar terms to the applicants, who ap- 

 proved of it ; but when the lease was presented 

 for signature they had changed their minds, and 

 refused to sign the document or to have anything 

 further to do with the land. The land has been 

 untenanted for three-quarters of a year, and the 

 Council have now arranged with the lessor for the 

 lease to be cancelled on payment of one year's rent 

 in addition to the three-quarters of a year's rent 

 now due.' 



The Council report that they are now ' very shy ' 

 of entertaining further applications. 



Without exact specific knowledge it is perhaps 

 hardly justifiable to draw any definite conclusions 

 from this case. It appears, from the published Report 



