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PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS. 



[March 1896; 



acquired and as to its division into small holdings, PartlLr 

 The counties in which petitions have been presented, but no 

 land has yet been acquired. Part III. : The counties in which 

 no petitions have been presented. 



The total acreage acquired by County Councils is shown to 

 have been 483a. Or. 28p., distributed as under : — 



1 Coanty, 



! 



Parish. 



Area. 



i Englasb : 





A. 



u. 









P. 



1 Cambridge - 



Comberton 



31 



2 



23 



I Devon - - - - 



Tavistock - - - 



4 



1 



39 



j Lincoln (Holland) 



Spalding - - - 



88 



0 



21 





Freiston and Butterwick - 



47 



1 



24 



1 London 



Lewisham 



10 



2 



33| 





Charlton - - - 



1 



3 



3 





Pkimstead 



10 



0 



H 



1 Sussex, West - - - 



Storrington 



41 



2 



10 



Warwick - 



Farnborough 



17 



0 



0 



1 Worcester .... 



Bromsgrove 



147 



0 



22 



1 Scotland : 











\ Ross and Cromarty 



Kiltearn - 



83 



1 



9 



In 27 counties in England and Wales, and in 14 counties in 

 Scotland, petitions were presented, but no land has yet been 

 acquired by the Councils, for reasons explained in detail in the 

 return by the County Councils concerned. In 27 counties in. 

 England and Wales, and in 18 counties in Scotland, no petitions 

 have been presented. 



Three of the County Councils in England, viz., Cambridge, 

 Lincoln (Holland), and London, have distributed the land acquired 

 under Part I. of the Act into small holdings ranging from 1 to 3- 

 acres in extent ; but 14 acres 29 poles of the 88 acres 21 poles 

 at Spalding are let, together with a farmhouse, at a rental of 40?. 

 per annum. The area acquired at Bromsgrove, in Worcester, 

 is divided into 32 holdings of from 3 to 7 acres each, while the 

 land at Storrington, in West Sussex, is divided into four hold- 

 ings of 5 1 to 13 acres in extent. The four acres situated in the 

 parish of Tavistock represent a single holding, and the 17 

 acres acquired by the Warwick County Council are let to a 

 committee of seven of the applicants. The land acquired by 

 the County Council of Ross and Cromarty is divided into 25 

 holdings, ranging from 1 to 6 acres in area. , 



Twenty of the holdings in Comberton are let at rents ranging 

 from 29s. Qd. to 46s. per acre ; the holdings in Spalding are let 

 at 40s. to 42s. per acre, and those in Freiston and Butterwick 

 at 45s. to 60s. per acre. In Comberton, 10 lots were sold at S5L 

 per lot on the average, payable in half-yearly instalments. 



In addition to the foregoing, 2 acres of land and a house in 

 the parish of Nailsea, Somerset, were purchased by an applicant 



