If a man accepts a job as a cowman, moves
into the cowman's cottage and then decides to go and work for bigger money in a nearby factory or (as happened the other day to a cowman I khow) wins £50,000 in a football pool, it doesn't seem to me fair that he should go on living in the cowman's cottage, which is 'generally, owing to its position,' almost an integral part of the dairy. There are probably more inexperienced farmers (or pro- prietors of farms) in the country than there ever were before, and there are certainly more people whose main motive in apply- ing for a job is to get the house that goes with it, regardless of whether or not they are qualified for or keen on the job itself. To make service tenancies illegal would lead in the end to dis- location' and much bitterness throughout the countryside.
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