. The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c. t his objection to the RailwayCommission dealing with cases of agriculturalpreference was its great cost ; it might be any-thing from £25 to £ His principal remedywas to transfer agricultural matters from theBoard of Trade to the Board of Agriculture,who would know the requirements of the agri-culturists and be able to suggest some meansof meeting tho railway companies, such as co-operation among the farmers, and giving fulltruck loads. Then if these -powers were notgiven the chambers of agriculture pressed verystrongly, as an alternativ
. The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c. t his objection to the RailwayCommission dealing with cases of agriculturalpreference was its great cost ; it might be any-thing from £25 to £ His principal remedywas to transfer agricultural matters from theBoard of Trade to the Board of Agriculture,who would know the requirements of the agri-culturists and be able to suggest some meansof meeting tho railway companies, such as co-operation among the farmers, and giving fulltruck loads. Then if these -powers were notgiven the chambers of agriculture pressed verystrongly, as an alternative, that Ihe Board of.\-4r11 nil ore. on behalf f agriculturists, shouldhave power to get a legal decision where ageneral principle was involved. They suggestedfor this reason thai if. for example, the Artweie construed to say that sea. eotn|>etitionwas a justification for giving preferential ralesto the foreigner, then it would be open to IheHoard of Agriculture to ask for an amendmentof the law. July 17, 1006. AGRICULTURAL By a Lobbyist. The significance of the new redistributionproposals—and I am assuming that they willbe adopted by the Legislature—lies in thei \ idence that they provide of what 1 regard asthe ungenerous attitude which British state-i raft has invariably adopted towards ruralrepresentation. To me there is something gro-tesquely anomalous in the fact that whilstpeatres at present represented in the Housewhich can boast of a population of 18,500 willretain their distinction, no less than fiftythousand electors in Norfolk will be deprivedof the same distinctive privilege, and bein< rged mto neighbouring constituencies. Ofcourse, that redstribution is necessary is un-deniable. This has been rendered so, notmerely by the fact that the population haslargely shifted its home, but by the fact thatthe last Redistribution Act perpetuated manyanomalies, and by the further fact that theboundary areas in the counties resolved uponby the Boundary Comm
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