MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE

55. WHITEHALL. PRESS NOTICE 11th June, 1945 S.W.I LONDON, M^A.F.982

NOT FOR PUBLICATION, BROADCAST OR USE ON CLUB TAPES BEFORE 00.50 HOURS B.D.S.T. ON SUNDAY 15TH JUNE, 1945

SITING OF RICKS (AMENDMENT) ORDER

Article 2 of the Siting of Ricks Order 1942 which prohibits the 20 of other building of any rick of agricultural produce within yards any of the Parts of rick, now applies only to the administrative counties Lindsey, Kesteven and Holland, the Soke of Peterborough, the Isle of Ely, Norfolk, Cambridge, East and West Suffolk, Essex, Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, East and West Sussex, Southampton and the Isle of Wight* In these counties of ricks may be built in pairs for convenience baling or threshing provided each pair is at least 20 yards distant from the next rick. The exclusion of other counties in England and Wales does not mean that precautions of against incendiary attack can be relaxed. The frequent occurrence also to at stack fires due not only to enemy action but carelessness threshing time calls attention to the need for special vigilance.

within Article 1 of the Order prohibiting the building of ary rick to the whole of and 20 yards of any dwelling house still applies England Wales.

from the Dutch barns erected before 15th June 1942 remain exempt to fill their barns terms of the Order but farmers are urged not higher

the so that fire could than the eaves and to leave space in bays fighters to deal with incendiary bomb reach the top of the stacks in time any penetrating the roof*