A meeting was held at the Westminster Palace Hotel on
Wednesday afternoon in support of the Cheap Cottages Exhibition, at which Lord Onslow, who presided, declared that if the forthcoming Exhibition showed that cottages could be put up for £150 or less, there would be a great number of men willing to invest their money in this way, and the housing question might largely be solved. Lord Hylton, Mr. W. Crooks, M.P., Sir Walter Lawrence, Lord Carrington, Lord Heneage, Sir William Chance, and Mr. Neville all spoke, and in the same sense. Sir Walter Lawrence mentioned that while agent for a great English landlord he had constantly been asked by village clergymen to build cottages in order that young couples might be able to marry without leaving their own districts. This, we are convinced, is a point of no small importance. Owing to the cost of construction, the supply of cottages does not keep pace with the population, and therefore for a couple to marry and make a new home means to depopulate the village. If the Cheap Cottages Exhibition can show the landlords how they may build without pecuniary loss, it will have accomplished a most useful work.
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