18 SEPTEMBER 1926, Page 11

* * The importance of the problems of town-planning and

the " preservation of places of national beauty is generally recognized nowadays, and in East Kent We owe much to the prevision of the late Lord Milner. But much remains to be done and we need a national survey. The erection of an ugly house or farm building should be made a crime. Recently I passed an attractive group of thatched- farm-buildings to which had been added a galvanized-iron outhouse, resembling in its hideousness some up-country stations " out back " in Australia or New Zealand. We must redouble the support we give to the agencies which are seeking to stir us out of our lethargy. .