15 NOVEMBER 1913, Page 19

The deer park, we are told, is roughly 1,500 acres

in extent. Four farms stood in the way of its creation, one of 500 acres. Here the tenant was given £850 to clear out. He took some of the labourers with him. The others are employed in creating the "paradise." The tenants of the three smaller farms were got rid of in the same princely way. The farm buildings have disappeared, and apparently, as far as agricul- ture goes, the ground has been laid waste. No doubt the farmers make no complaints, and have been handsomely treated, but would Mr. Lloyd George have held this any excuse if the man who made a wilderness for his pleasure out of " happy homesteads" and "land producing corn and milk for the poor" had been a Tory duke instead of a supporter of the Government ?