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Council, and from this inquiry and from other 

 sources the Sub- Committee believe that consider- 

 able difficulty would be experienced in obtaining 

 available land. 



* Your Committee do not recommend the Council 

 to take any further steps in the matter. 



* The report was received and adopted.' 



Kent. 'An inquiry was held by the Small 

 Holdings Committee, who found that there was 

 a bona fide demand. 



' Further correspondence ensued, but the matter 

 fell through owing to the high price asked for the 

 purchase of the land, and no resolution of tlie 

 County Council was ever passed on the subject.' 



Salop. ' That the Council do not consider that 

 there is such a demand for small holdings in the 

 county as would justify them in putting the Act 

 into operation.' 



Surrey. ' A report of the Allotments Committee 

 adverse to the proposal was received by the County 

 Council at their meeting in November, 1893, and 

 adopted without formal resolution.' 



There is a certain cold finality about these 

 statements calculated to chill the half-awakened 

 aspirations of the labourers, who, despite their own 

 pessimism in the matter, watch with interest the 

 fortunes of their fellow-workers who have had ' the 

 cheek' to send in their wishes to the Council, 

 embodied, to their minds, in the character of their 

 own representative, probably a farmer, who is 

 well known to them locally as not being the sort 



