asked the Minister of Health whether, having regard to the fact that the absence of an adequate supply of water in the village of Langton Herring is causing hardship to residents and to farmers who have to carry water to their cattle, and that it is now over three years since a scheme for the provision of a piped water supply was first put forward, he is prepared to take action to help the Dorchester Rural District Council to obtain the pipes necessary to carry out this scheme without further delay.

The first part of this scheme was authorised on 2nd July, 1946. I am informed that the pipes required have been delivered. Permits for the pipes for the second instalment were issued in September last. I am doing what I can to help, but I would not accelerate delivery at the expense of other schemes of equal or greater urgency.