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AT a meeting on May 16 of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Unopposed Bills, the Metropolitan Water Board Bill was considered. Under this Bill, it is sought to construct various new works, including a reservoir covering 417 acres in the Staines area and another about 374 acres in extent in the Walton and Weybridge area. This latter will involve submerging Mr. F. W. Secrett's Holly Lodge Farm (see NATURE, February 2, p. 177, and February 9, p. 228). On behalf of the Metropolitan Water Board it was stated that the farm has been brought to a very high state of cultivation, chiefly by the use of artificial manures, and also due to the fact that the soil is of a certain consistency. It is not contended that there is no other soil in the country of the same physical consistency, or which could not be brought finally to an equal state of high cultivation. Indeed, if there were not, then this farm of 180 acres could not be considered to be of the slightest use to the nation. The arrangement is that the lessee of the farm shall remain in possession for at least two years, in order that, if he thinks fit to do so, he will have time to change to another farm on which he may carry on his very useful work. The Committee found the preamble of the Bill proved, and it was ordered to be reported for third reading.
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Holly Lodge Farm. Nature 135, 866 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135866b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/135866b0