1920.] 



Official Xoticks and Circulars. 



been given by the Local Authority to the allotment holders. The 

 procedure outlined in paragraph 3 of this Memorandum should, there- 

 fore, be followed in future, and your Council should take steps to bring 

 publicly to the notice of owners of land the fact that any unauthorised 

 entry on land before the Council have withdrawn is an offence against 

 the Defence of the Realm Regulations, and is punishable by a fine of 

 ;^ioo, or six months' imprisonment, or both, and that if any cases arises 

 in which an owner has wilfully entered on land without authority, your 

 Council will not hesitate to obtain the necessary authority to institute 

 legal proceedings against him. 



5. Compensation to Allotment Holders on Dispossession. — The Board 

 have obtained from the Treasury authority to pay, when necessary, 

 as an act of grace, compensation to allotment holders dispossessed of 

 their holdings within a period of two years after the termination of the 

 War. This applies only to allotment holders on land entered upon by 

 a Local Authority under the powers conferred on them by the Cultiva- 

 tion of Lands Orders, made under the Defence of the Realm Regulations. 

 The compensation payable will be restricted to the value of the growing 

 crops, and the labour expended and manure applied with a view to a 

 future crop before the allotment holder received notice. 



6. Local Authorities are urged to arrange, as far as possible, that 

 {a) where land is required for building or other industrial pur- 

 poses, or 



(6) where the compensation payable for continued possession 

 of the land would be in excess of the value to the nation of 

 the food produced, 

 the land should be given up at a time when there are few crops on the 

 land, and that in any case in which there is a definite propsect of land 

 being required for building next spring or summer, allotment holders 

 should be warned not to plant crops or expend labour, or apply manure 

 to crops which cannot be harvested before the date when the land 

 will have to be given up. 



The following Circular Letter was addressed to Local Authorities 

 in Great Britain under the Diseases of Animals Acts, 1894, to 191 4, 

 by the Board on 30th December : — 

 Double Dipping of Sir, — I am directed by the Board of Agri- 

 Sheep, culture and Fisheries to refer to their Circular 

 Letter to Local Authorities dated the i6th 

 March, 191 7 (A 303/C.),* relative to the question of the double dipping 

 of sheep, and to say that the attention of the Board has been called from 

 time to time to the fact that in some cases injury and sometimes deaths 

 have resulted amongst sheep which have been dipped at intervals of 

 less than 14 days. Inquiry in the matter has in every case elicited the 

 fact that the sheep wdiich had suffered had been dipped in poisonous 

 dip on each occasion. 



It is recognised that if a poisonous dip is used there is a risk of 

 poisoning from bad handling of the sheep when dipping, and also from 

 the sheep before they are properly drained being placed on confined 

 pasture, and so poisoned from eating herbage which is contaminated 

 by the draining from the sheep, and also by rain washing the poison 

 out from the wool. 



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