RURAL HOUSING.
(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR ..1 Sia.—Is it too late to suggest that, instead of urging Rural District Councils to undertake cottage building wills cottage ownership and management, work for which, after being myself a Rural District Councillor for thirty years, I feel .sure they are not qualified, the Government should help the land- owners, large and small alike, but especially the latter, to build or rebuild or even to repair cottages? They should at the some time greatly increase the pressure exercised through the Rural District Councils to compel owners to provide decent houses for the people, and to this work, if granted the means, the landowners would give far more individual attention. either in person or through their land agents, than would Rural District Councils largely composed of -tenant farmers. In the same way a far larger number of small-holdings would have been provided by this time, if inatensl of trusting to local Authorities the Governments concerned had granted loans to landowners to enable them to provide the necessary houses and buildings. Make it greatly to the interest of the landowners Is provide them with the help of the State, and the necessary houses, buildings, and cottages will soon be put up.—I am, Sir.
East Allington Rectory, Devon.
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