The Board, Dr. Addison continued, had formed a special organization
for housing purposes under Sir James-Cannichaele The country was divided into eleven districts, in each of which a local Housing Commissioner would give expert advice and assist- ance to the Local Authorities, so as to save time -and money. Dr. Addison, we are glad to notice, expressed the belief that Publie'tltility Societies would be of great help. -One such Society proposed to build six thousand houses. The Ministry of Supply had promised to provide building materials. It was hoped that the brickyards, inactive during the war, would be in full work very soon, and--that -by -next year they would supply more bricks than ever before. Dr. Addison was not disposed to regard Army huts as more than a temporary substitute for houses. He did not deal' specifically with the important question of rent, except to say that ultimately, perhaps after seven years, the new houses must-yield an economic rent so-that they would-pay for them- selves. A fair rent must of course be the basis of any satis- factory housing scheme.
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