Mr. Robert Boothby wisely insisted that the Govern- ment should
hold carefully to their plan of building by mass production within defined areas and added that the Scottish National Housing Company should be allowed great latitude in regard to the details. We heartily congratulate the Prime Minister on this vigorous act. The slowness, the obstinacy and the local quarrels of the housing authorities in Scotland have been lament- able. The Government have now by a strong act of intervention provided the means of overcoming them. Mr. Neville Chamberlain's figures of the progress of housing in England were really encouraging. One hundred and fifty-nine thousand houses have been built in the past year as against an average of 116,370 in the best five-year period before the War. Slum-clearance, he said, had proceeded " infinitely faster." * *
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