THE RURAL COTTAGE PROBLEM.
[To THE EDITOR OP TIM " SPECTATOR."1
Sin,—Is not Mr. W. P. Rawneley, in his letter to the Spectator of February let, rather unjust to the owners of cottage property generally, rural in particular ? The case he cites, in which a man earning 18s. a week, living in Bridge Street, Godalming, pays 9s. a week rent, merely proves that the man is living in an urban district, in a house the rent of which is far above his means. For all we know (it may not be the case), he rents the house under exceptionally favourable terms. Would it not be equally just, on the case as cited, to say that the man's employer grossly underpays him, and ought to provide a cottage rent free, as is so often done in rural districts P I may add that I do not own cottage property, but live in a cottage, the rent of which is much too high. My landlord nevertheless continues cruelly to exact the rent I
agreed to give.—I am, Sir, &c., H. N.
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