Much is likely to be heard in the near future
about a number of successes already to the credit of the C.P.R.E., which represents over a score of the societies founded for the preser- vation of this and that British treasure. Of these in good time. Here and now I would refer only to a minor point or - two. Everyone who travels by road knows with what fantastic and horrible speed the habit of " ribbon development " has proceeded. Villages and towns are indefinitely extended by fringes of shacks, bungalows, and small houses along the main road. The vicious practice is more than ugly. It is insanitary and uneconomic ; and it is inconvenient in details that one would not have anticipated. In one county, perhaps in others too, the local authority has recently been forced to provide costly transport for the children, because so many are more than a convenient walking distance from the village school ; and the children must walk along a dangerous route. In this crowded county we have been forced to the same form of expense as the education authorities in the scattered home- steads of Australia.
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