Lieut-Colonel Walter Guinness
Former MP for Bury St Edmunds
Former MP for Bury St Edmunds
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I explained the position in reply to a similar question by the hon. and gallant Member on 11th February, and there is nothing that I can usefully add to the answer which I then gave.
The county council can, of course, approach the Unemployment Grants Committee for assistance in this matter, but I can only repeat that our experts advise that there is very little of this land—not more than 250 acres—which is ripe for reclamation.
It is a matter for experts and engineers. It is no use spending money on reclaiming a large area of land which could give no agricultural value. It is necessary, if you are to get any return from reclamation, to delimit those areas where herbage is beginning to grow, and where there is some prospect of agricultural return.
Former MP for Bury St Edmunds
Entered the House of Commons on 24 August 1907 — unknown
Left the House of Commons on 7 October 1931 — General election
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