Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, the new Minister of Agriculture, who has hitherto been singularly quiet while studying his job (you remember that he presents the singular anomaly of a Minister who really knows something of the task he is given to do) has made a first move, with a sharp reminder to rural councils that allotments on which people can grow food are more important than playgrounds on which they can play tennis, and building sites should not be planted on the top of market gardens.
As the Minister says, councils are much readier to grant money for playing-fields which will be a
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