[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIRS I am delighted
to read that Prof. Scott is starting a " Homecroft Settlement," and I congratulate the Spectator on supporting his policy. I hope that the capital will be forthcoming. Under good management interest should be paid. As a practical example of what can be done, the Surrey Garden Village is now coming into existence (hitherto with very little support from the Press) and a ready market is found for surplus food produced. No applicant is granted land who cannot show that he has some knowledge of at least one or two branches of small husbandry. There are now about fifty holdings from half-acre upwards. Nine months after the capital was called in interest at 6 per cent. per annum has been paid (it was at that time impossible without the great expense of a public appeal to obtain money at a lower rate). The Society is now in a position to guarantee 5 per cent. interest to those who will advance money for the cottages. Only a few houses at present have been erected, but with the gradual re- cognition of the importance of home-grown food it is hoped that even those investors who pride themselves on being " shrewd " will see that they cannot do better with their money than invest it in a " Homecroft Settlement."—I am, ;Sir, &c., EDITH LINSLEY HUDSON, Secretary, Surrey Garden Village Trust, Ltd.,
Eldon House, Croydon.
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