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The special public interest, however, 

 aroused by Wayford Tenants, Limited, lies 

 in its exceptional economic basis. It is this 

 which marks it out as a unique settlement of 

 small holders, and its further development 

 becomes a matter of national interest. 



Besides the lack of driving force behind its 

 administration, there were many gaps in the 

 framing of the Small Holdings Act. It is 

 for the filling up of these gaps by associated 

 effort that the Wayford Society was created. 

 Tenant co-partnership has been applied to 

 town areas with astounding success, and this 

 is an attempt to apply the same principle to 

 an agricultural colonv with the addition of 

 several distinctive features. 



Each small holder becomes at the same 

 time the tenant of his own holding, for which 

 he pays a rent varying from 30s. to 40s. an 

 acre, and a part proprietor of all the holdings. 

 He is tenant and landlord combined. He has 

 to take up shares to the value of his holding, 

 but the whole amount need not be paid at 

 once. A minimum of £lO in shares has been 

 fixed with a minimum contribution of 5s. a 

 month towards the rest of his share capital. 

 He is never burthened with the task of having 



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