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5. That in this particular scheme of land settlement, the 

 object aimed at should be to tap employment at the 

 fountain head — that is to say, to prevent the existing 

 rural dwellers from going into the towns, rather than 

 to correct an evil which has already developed, and 

 attempt to transfer town-bred men to the country. 



Experience in Germany and elsewhere confirms the view that 

 the small land-holder class provides the most satisfactory as well 

 as the most economical body of forest workers. 



Having decided on a crofter population, the next step is to 

 decide — 



1. The exact tenure of the land : 



2. The size of the croft ; 



3. The number of weeks' employment it is necessary to 



offer in addition to ordinary crofting work; and 



4. The number of men that the Glen Mor scheme will 



provide with certain and sufficient labour. 



Houses and the Tenure of Land. 



It is suggested that in all cases the building of the dwelling- 

 house should be financed by the Forest Authority. That the 

 forest worker should be allowed either (i) To pay for his 

 dwelling-house rent based on a 3 per cent, charge on the 

 total outlay by the Forest Authority; or (2) That, if he 

 wished to become an independent holder, he should be 

 entitled to pay capital and interest for his house and land at 

 the rate of 5 per cent. — that is to say, 3 per cent, on the 

 cost of the house and 2 per cent, to a Sinking Fund. That 

 during the time that the forest worker is paying off his debt 

 on the house he should be a servant of the Forest Authority, 

 dismissable on a year's notice. That in case of dismissal the 

 portion of th6 Sinking Fund, less any claims there might be 

 against him, should be returned to him, but that the interest 

 on the cost of the house should be regarded as a rent charge. 

 The object of this method of tenure is to have some hold over 

 the worker during the early, or what might be called the training 

 period. Once he had paid for the house by the instalments 

 indicated, at the end of thirty years (or by agreement sooner), 

 it might be presumed that the habit of working in the woods 

 would have been established in him, and the woodman should 



