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In regard to housing, the cheerful announcement is made that

the provision of cottages is to be undertaken by the Central Government, that an economic rent for cottages will be charged, and that the Insurance Reserve Fund will be used to provide the money. We venture to say that if this scheme is adhered to, the cottages, with the land on which they stand, plus the gardens, will never cost less than £250, and often more than £300, and that the economic rent will never be less than Cs. a week, and very often 7s. 6d. That, we may observe, will reduce the farm labourer's new £1 a week to 14s. or below.

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