powers about to be taken by the Secretary of State for Scotland, we consider that our Departments and our local agents, the local authorities and County War Agricultural Executive Committees, are adequately equipped in this respect for their task. Further details are given in the Appendix. ORGANISATION 8. The Ministry of Food, in England and Wales, has the double task of - (i) ensuring rodent control in the Ministry's own and other food stores; (ii) directing and assisting local authorities under the Infestation Order, 1943, in the institution of local schemes of control and extermination.