32 THE PRACTICAL SIDE OF 



purposes within or without their parish, 

 district, or borough, and they can adapt 

 the land for the purposes required. As in 

 the case of Small Holdings, a Borough or 

 District Council may purchase or hire land 

 compulsorily under certain restrictions where 

 they are unable to acquire it by agreement. 

 Where a Parish Council or Parish Meeting 

 is unable to obtain land for allotments, they 

 may report the facts to the County Council, 

 who may proceed at once to acquire land 

 compulsorily on their behalf, conditionally 

 upon the order being confirmed by the Board 

 of Agriculture. The rent charged to an 

 allotment holder, one-fourth of which the 

 Council may require to be paid in advance, 

 must be fixed at a sum sufficient to cover 

 the expenses incurred in providing and 

 adapting the land, together with the cost 

 of management. Where a house is erected 

 on the land the rent fixed must be sufficient 

 to cover the cost. 



