19 JULY 1913, Page 14

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR, In your interesting

article on " The Cottage Problem," you say " By all means let the County Council build such cottages as are required to house the police, the roadmen," &c. But what about the Postmaster-General and the rural post- man? He would have in building one great advantage: he is superior to the local bylaws which you and everybody else say are obstructive. The Treasury could not object, because the Chancellor of the Exchequer has himself an official resi- dence, and that, too, although he receives a salary which would enable him to rent a "dwelling fit for human habita-