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Up to the end of June the Board had received seventeen 

 schemes for the provision of small holdings, thirteen of which 

 have been approved. These seventeen schemes cover an area 

 of 1,406 acres, and in addition, schemes relating to 647 acres 

 have been provisionally approved. 



It thus appears that rather over 2,000 acres of land have 

 already been acquired under the recent Act, and in addition 

 negotiations are in progress in many other counties. The 

 Cheshire County Council are negotiating for a thirty-five years 

 lease of 255 acres of crown land at Delamere and for land in 

 the Wirral and other parts of the county. The Cornwall 

 County Council have purchased at auction 146 acres near 

 Bridgerule. The Holland County Council have agreed to 

 buy a farm of 285 acres at Deeping St. Nicholas, and proposals 

 for the acquisition on lease for twenty-one years by the Wilts 

 County Council of 452 acres at Mere from the Duchy of 

 Cornwall for letting to a co-operative association are now 

 before the Board. The Bedfordshire County Council are 

 negotiating for the letting of a farm of 300 acres to a co- 

 operative society at Biggleswade. 



In addition to the powers which are given to councils by 

 the Acts of 1892 and 1907 for the purchase or hiring of land 

 for small holdings, they are empowered by section 17 of the 

 Act of 1892 to advance money to sitting tenants of small 

 holdings to enable them to purchase their holdings. In 

 consequence of the sale of the Penrhyn and Vaynol estates 

 in Carnarvonshire sixty-eight of the tenants applied to the 

 county council for advances to enable them to purchase 

 their holdings, and sums amounting to £4,436 have been 

 advanced by the council for the purpose. 



A summary of the action taken in each county is appended 

 to the report, together with copies of the various documents 

 which have been issued by the Board relating to the Acts. 



The Annual Report of the Intelligence Division of the Board 

 of Agriculture and Fisheries will be issued this year in two 

 parts. The first part, which has already 

 Report of the Intelli- [ been published (Cd. 4274. Price, $d.)> 

 genee Division. deals with the work of the Commercial 

 Control Branch under the Sale of Food 



