PUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE. To be purchased directly from H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses: or 120, George Street, Edinburgh; or through any Bookseller. 1924. Price 5s. Net. Cmd. 2145. (6) APPENDICES COMPRISING MEMORANDA AND STATISTICS FROM V.-Provision of Small Holdings in England and Wales by County Councils and Councils of County Boroughs 327-331 XVI.-Duties on certain Descriptions of Agricultural Produce x (5)20800 Wt 13629-566 3000 5/24 A 2 567065 AGRICULTURAL TRIBUNAL OF INVESTIGATION. FINAL REPORT. MINUTE OF APPOINTMENT. I hereby appoint— Sir WILLIAM J. ASHLEY Professor W. G. S. ADAMS, and as a Tribunal of Investigation to enquire into the methods which have been adopted in other countries during the last fifty years to increase the prosperity of agriculture and to secure the fullest possible use of the land for the production of food and the employment of labour at a living wage, and to advise as to the methods by which those results can be achieved in this country. And I further appoint Mr. C. S. Orwin as Agricultural Assessor to the said Tribunal and Mr. D. B. Toye, of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, as Secretary of the said Tribunal. 29th December, 1922. (Signed) A. BONAR LAW. Note.—The total expenses incurred by the Tribunal, excluding the cost of printing and publication of the Interim and Final Reports, amount to 9541. 10s. 10d. The estimated cost of printing and publication of this Report is approximately 3641. To the Right Honourable J. RAMSAY MACDONALD, M.P., Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. SIR, In submitting for your consideration our Final Reports, we wish to state that, while on some matters they represent different points of view, they should also be regarded largely as supplementary one to the other, each Report treating certain aspects of the problem more fully than the other. Each member of the Tribunal is, of course, responsible only for the Report to which his signature is appended. We have to express our obligations to the many witnesses who appeared before us or sent written information. Particularly do we desire to thank the Foreign Office for reports supplied by British representatives abroad; the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, and especially their Statistical Branch, who prepared much valuable material for our use, and the International Labour Office at Geneva. Our thanks are due also to Mr. Harald Faber, Danish Agricultural Commissioner in London, who gave us assistance with regard to Denmark; and to Sir Horace Plunkett, who furnished most useful material relative to agricultural developments in the United States. We desire to record our high appreciation of the unsparing and most valuable services of our Secretary, Mr. D. B. Toye, throughout the inquiry and in the drafting of the Interim and Final Reports. We have the honour to be, Sir, (Signed) 7th May, 1924. Your obedient Servants, WM. ASHLEY, W. G. S. ADAMS, (Agricultural Assessor). X 20800 |