We are delighted to see that the Hertfordshire County Council
is taking up the subject which has several times been mentioned in these columns, namely, the duty which lies upon bodies like County Councils, District Councils, and other local authorities to ,erect cottages for their employees, such as policemen, roadmen, Sce. At present the plan is to hire houses from landlords for these men, with the result that owing to the paucity of cottages it becomes snore and more difficult to house rural labourers. At the meeting of the Hertfordshire County Council a resolution was proposed by Mr. Holland-Hibbert that a committee should be chosen to consider the desirability of the Council erecting cottages for policemen and roadmen. In seconding the resolution, Lord Salisbury said that it was not fair that a great county like Hertfordshire should rely upon private enterprise to make good the deficiency in cottages. He hoped the time would come when, partly by the raising of wages and partly by the cheapening of the cost of construction, there would be an ample supply of cottages. He looked forward to the time when there would be so many cottages in the county that a man could get a cottage as easily as he could get a pair of boots.
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