11 JANUARY 1930, Page 16

Some years ago a county paper offered to publish without

charge any advertisement for land to be sold below a certain price. The exact figure I forget. I believe that if such an offer were made to-day the paper would be overwhelmed with offers of land at under £10 an acre, and down to £3 or £4. Such a price makes the mouth water of many rather poor people who desire a country home and nurse the love of land that is inherent in most of us. The trouble is that they would not find among the offers any small, snug or convenient patch. The offers would be of wide acres on Midland clays or chalk slopes or mountain wastes.