The Times of Thursday contains a very amusing and instructive
article entitled "The Creation of a Deer Park." It describes how Lord Pirrie, following in the steps of William the Conqueror, has created a kind of New Forest in Surrey by clearances of farms and farmhouses to make way for game—the idea which Mr. Lloyd George imagines, though quite wrongly, inspired the clearances in the Highlands a hundred years ago. A few years back, we are told by the writer in the Times, "there were flourishing farms where now the deer browse at the foot of the hills around Haslemere. The farms have gone, the farmhouses have been pulled down, and the farmers, so far as is known, have taken their skill and experience to other districts. Lord Pirrie, who received his title from the Government in their first year of office, bought Lea Park, between Godalming and Haslemere, a few years ago."
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