[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Professor J. W. Scott
set out his scheme for Home- crofting in your issue of August 1st, and if I understand him rightly he means the tenants under this scheme to become gradually owners of their plots and to have the right to do with them exactly as they please.
Is it not certain that in process of time they, or their representatives, will be tempted to sell these plots, and if the land has risen to a building value the temptation will be very strong ? The original " carefully selected " Home- crofter may be dead, the land will be built upon, and the whole scheme will have had no result but to enrich a few favoured individuals. Every landowner who has set up allotments, or who has had to deal with those set up by an. ancestor—which -is my case—knows that if there are no safe-_ guards they are apt soon to be all gradually taken up by one- or two men and exploited in some way quite foreign to the intentions of the original donor. Will Professor Scott explain' how he proposes to prevent this kind of thing ?—I am, Sir, etc.,:
Ockhani -Park, Ripley, Surrey. MARY Loys.L.Acn. _ . [In addition to the generous promises above we have received' as free gifts, A. N. Cole, 21 ; Mrs. S. L. Constant, £1 Is. ; II promise from Canon H. P. Thompson, 210 ; and the following nuns for investment, Messrs. Moody Bell & Lamb, £10 ; Messrs. Heeling & Overbury, 25 ; E. H. Wynn, 15 ; making with sums previously acknowledged £1,005 158.—ED. Spectator.]
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