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Official Circulars and Notices. [sept., 



appointment they would assent, or they may at once apply to the Board 

 to appoint an arbitrator. 



Compensation under the Act is only payable where the tenancy is 

 terminated by a notice to quit, and will, therefore, not be payable where 

 the tenancy is terminated (a) by arrangement with the tenant, or (b) 

 by its acquisition or extinguishment under the procedure for compulsory 

 acquisition. In the latter case compensation is payable under the Lands 

 Clauses Acts as modified by the Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 

 1908. 



Section 2 of the Act is as follows : — 



Where a tenancy has been terminated before the commencement of 

 this Act, and the tenant proves to the satisfaction of the Board of 

 Agriculture and Fisheries that he has incurred any loss or expense for 

 which he would have been entitled to compensation under the foregoing 

 section of this Act if the tenancy had terminated after the commence- 

 ment of this Act, the Board may, out of the Small Holdings Account, 

 pay to the tenant such compensation for such loss or expense as they 

 think just : Provided that no compensation under this section shall be 

 payable if the claim for compensation is not made before the first day of 

 November nineteen hundred and ten. 



The Board would be glad if you would at once take steps to bring 

 this provision to the notice of all persons who may be entitled to make 

 a claim thereunder in respect of tenancies terminated in your County. 

 The claim must be sent to the Board before the 1st November next, 

 but the amount and detailed particulars of the claim may be submitted 

 subsequently. If any such claim is received by a council the tenant 

 should be'referred to the Board. 



I am to add that the Board are of opinion that in order to avoid 

 any question in the future as to whether or not a notice to quit has 

 been given by a landlord at the request of the Council, the officers of 

 the Council should be instructed that no such request should be made 

 except in writing and upon express instructions from the Council or the 

 Small Holdings and Allotments Committee. 



I am, &c, 



T. H. Elliott, 



Secretary. 



The volume of Agricultural Statistics for 1909, containing informa- 

 tion relating to the prices of agricultural produce, the supplies of live 

 stock, and the imports and exports of agricul- 

 Report on Prices and tural commoditieS) has now been published 

 Supplies Of AgTl- (Agricultural Statistics, 1909, Part HI., 

 cultural Commodities. C d. 5268, price 9 d.\ The tables are prefaced 

 by a Report by Mr. R. H. Rew, dealing with the fluctuations in prices 

 and supplies. 



