In Committee.
 Honourable E. A. C. Hughes: Members of Committee, I am,. always have
 been, and always will be, fundamentally opposed to any Bill that I think can not
 be properly enforced, or can only be enforced by the expenditure of a great deal of
 money. I do not know how many of you have read this bill, but it seems to me
 that it will be impossible to enforce it. Every man who owns a bit of land will
 have to make a return of everything he reaped during the year. We have many
 illiterate and semi-literate people who will ignore the Law and the only way this
 will be able to be enforced is by the appointment of a small army to go out into the
 highways and byeways. I know that following the passage of this bill we will be
 asked to vote more money for more staff in order that the provisions of the bill
 may be enforced. I would like to know why it is necessary that there should be
 such a law on the Statute book. The reason I oppose first of all is that the bill
 will either become .a dead letter or prove very expensive to enforce. The
 Agricultural Department will find it impossible to enforce these provisions without
 imposing an overwhelming burden on taxpayers. I do not think that it is
 necessary and I will oppose it clause by clause.
 President: I fully appreciate what Mr. Hughes said. While I agree,
nevertheless we are to remember the fact that the United Kingdom is now very
much under pressure by reason of its non-self-governing territories, and they have
been asked to supply certain statistics to the Food and Agriculture Organisation
of the United Nations. The reason for the Bill is that the particular statistics
cannot be collected without the necessary legislation. It is important that the
Colonial Office should do everything in their power to comply with the requests of
the United Nations Organisation. The point is that we do definitely lack statistics.
We will have to get these as time goes on. I have had discussions with the
Agricultural Superintendent as to how he will collect the actual information, and
he said that it will be possible to be handled by the agricultural officers in the
districts. It is well for us to begin.
 Honourable W. A. Hadley: I agree with Mr. Hughes to some extent with
regard to how the information is going to be collected. I am not quite certain but
I think we used to submit voluntary information of this kind when Mr. Robinson
was here years ago. But the information was so inadequate that I don't think he
could make any proper use of it. I cannot see that it is the proper time for a bill
showing what we produce and what we could produce, and I honestly don't think
we have money enough to see it carried out. I think it is going to take a great
deal of work here and there and the returns would be inaccurate.
 President : Is there any further debate on this bill?
 Honourable Member for North Windward : To me what His Honour has said
is quite understandable, and I feel we should pass this bill. I view it as being of
more than local interest and, with the demand from the outside for information
on these particulars, if we do not fall into line with other places we might create
the unfavourable impression that we are not co-operative in giving necessary
information. I feel that it will be fairly difficult to arrive at the exact figures, but
I think that we ought to make a try to fall in line with other places.
 Honourable Member for South Windward : I agree, but I, like Mr. Hughes
am doubtful that the great quantity of information required by the bill could be
collected. Personally, I feel if the co-operation of the people especially at this
stage could be got, there is no reason to introduce this bill into the Legislative
Council.