The question of the overcrowding of Government employees at Farnborough
and Rosyth was brought up in the Lords on Tuesday. Lord Selborne, in asking for returns as to the housing accommodation provided by .the Government for workmen in their factories and dockyards, stated that the Government bad imported between eight hundred and nine hundred civilian employees into Farnborough within the last few years in connexion with the aircraft factory, but that up till now they had not provided a single house for all these mechanics and artisans. The overcrowding was frightful, and a builder who recently had four cottages on the eve of completion had received one hundred applications for them. Again, at Bordon Camp, where land was urgently needed for a police station, the Government were asking £1,000 an acre for the Crown land, which was the only land available.
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