A Bill, welcomed with some reserve by the C.P.R.E., for
coast defence is likely to become law ; bat it is treated as a local obligation. Surely subtraction from the area of England ought to be a national affair. Anyaste acquainted over a series of years with the Norfolk coast, especially in the Runton-Cromer neighbourhood, may feel distressed at the speed with which the sea has gained advantage of the land; std the " Slipper clay" that keeps tumbling into the sea is the hardest of all material:. to support. Happily, in any case, England grows larger. Rye gains more than Cromer loses, and it might grow very much larger if the English were Dutch. Very wide spaces are asking for salvation. The modems of du sea are silting op the shadow slams of the Wash, and a Comt Allifition Board might we take its place beside rhe Coast Protection Ilexerd. The land to be added would be very 'much more productive, thin the land to be saved.
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