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of the Small Holdings Committee, that at the local 

 inquiry ten labourers asked for 1 acre each of arable 

 land, and two tradesmen wanted 2 or 3 acres each. 

 The Council agreed to take the field at 2 an acre. 

 The men would presumably have to pay a slightly 

 increased rent, and were expected to bear the 

 expense of staking and road-making ; if this would 

 have brought their rent up to what is paid for the 

 local allotments (i.e., 2 8s. an acre) and the field, 

 as was stated by the men, was most unsuitable one 

 can hardly wonder that, on fully realizing the case, 

 the men * changed their minds.' This last sentence 

 appears to be formulated out of the fact that the 

 local County Councillor received a letter from the 

 applicants demanding that the rent and terms should 

 be altered. 



The Flintshire County Council, in answer to six 

 applications from Hope, acquired 20j acres for 

 490. 



An inquiry was subsequently held by the In- 

 spector of the Local Government Board as a result 

 of the application of the Council to borrow 550 

 to cover the cost of the above transaction. The 

 application was refused. The land, however, was 

 bought. When the purchase was completed the 

 applicants had ' altered their minds,' and the land 

 remained on the Council's hands for several years. 

 Eventually it was sold for the actual sum expended 

 on it. The Council's statement winds up gravely 

 with, ' There have been no applications since.' 



The statement, on the other side, is that the land 



