The King and Queen on Friday week gave further proof
of their practical interest in the horses of their people by receiving at Buckingham Palace representatives of the Local Authorities and Societies on whom the solution of the housing problem so largely depends. Dr. Addison, President of the Local Government Board, was present. The King, addressing his guests, pointed out that the problem was not a new one, but that it had been made vastly mom difficult by the cessation of building during the war. Twenty years ago his father had said, after visiting a London slum, that the housing diffi- culties must be surmounted. They had still to overcome many obstacles. They must clear away slums ; and they must provide, apart from such clearances, about five hundred thousand houses for workmen in England and Wales. They must build houses which could become homes, with the opportunity of comfort, leisure, brightness, and peace. No doubt the present dearth of building material would be made good. Housing was at the root of all social progress, and indissolubly related to health, to the stamping out of disease, and to the limiting of infant mortality. He looked with hope and confidence tc the future of housing.
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