Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture. – in the House of Commons at on 14 December 1939.
Mrs. Adamson:
asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware that 178 acres of agricultural land, known as Blackdale Farm, in the Dartford rural area, has been lying vacant since early October and that the foreman and men previously employed are still available for its cultivation; and whether he will take steps, in consultation with the Kent War Agricultural Committee, to ensure that this well-conditioned land will be cultivated to produce such crops as are essential for food production?
Mr Walter Womersley
, Grimsby
I understand that the Kent War Agricultural Executive Committee have had this farm under consideration and that the committee are on the point of taking suitable action to ensure that the land shall be properly cultivated.
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