1 NOVEMBER 1913, Page 32

BUILDING BY-LAWS.

[To me EDITOR Or THE "SPEC-TATOU."] SIR,—Speaking of cheap cottage-building in your issue of October 18th, you have certainly hit the right nail on the head where you speak of "the shackles imposed on building by a series of ridiculous by-laws." Thirty years back the surveyor to the local Board of a small but rapidly increasing place told me that he had studied them, and where a row of workmen's houses could be built to satisfy all reasonable requirements, under the by-laws he could force on 280 per house extra—and this useless expenditure.—! am, Sir, 8t.e.,