THE LAND INQUIRY.
[To rem EDITOR OF 781 " SPROT/S011."1 SIR,—In your article "The Land Inquiry" (November 15th) occurs the sentence : "We shall probably find that the Government will let their cottages below cost price, in spite of all this fine talk about economic rents." I think you will find your prophecy supported by what is happening in the matter of labourers' cottages under the Labourers (Ireland) Acts. The rent for these cottages is seldom, if ever (save in a portion of North-East Ulster), an economic one, or sufficient to pay the interest on the amount raised to build the cottages. If my memory serves me aright, the Irish Court of King's Bench not long ago leaned toward the opinion that the local authorities are not required by the Labourers Acts to charge a rent which is economic, though the Court did not actually decide the point.—I am, Sir, &c.,
December 13th, 1918.
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