23 AUGUST 1930, Page 17

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—" W.'S " article

in your issue of the 9th instant calls for some reply. Father Jellicoe, his Aladdin, can only provide new dwellings for old at the same rents because charitable people provide him with funds at two and a half and three per cent. per annum.

Since c. 10 of the Rent, &c., Restrictions Act, 1923, became law, a furnished dwelling has not been excluded from the general provisions of the Rent Acts, save when the proportion of the rent fairly attributable to the use of the furniture forms a substantial part of the whole rent. A landlord asks only that he should be " treated no differently from a baker, a milkman or a greengrocer." But they are free agents, while lie, nearly twelve years after the War, is left in fetters.—I