12 JULY 1913, Page 3

The Political Notes in Thursday's Times state that the report

of the Liberal Land Committee will be communicated to the Government in September. The chief features of the new Liberal land policy are to be (1) security of tenure through the agency of a Land Court ; (2) a labourers' minimum wage, determined by Wages Boards ; (3) housing reform. We pre- sume that the Committee have considered the results of the Wages Boards which some hundred years ago used to sit to settle agricultural wages in the country, and the appalling consequences in the matter of the pauperization, we had almost said the enslavement, of the rural labourer.