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Local Government Board, which holds an 

 Enquiry and refers the question back to the 

 County Council, before poor Hodge can get 

 a cottage to live in ! — the telling of the 

 getting of which runs something like the 

 nursery rhyme of the House that Jack 

 built. 



Now there is no need for the Rural District 

 Council to obtain the sanction of the County 

 Council before instituting building schemes. 

 Furthermore, there is to be no additional 

 price for the land on account of the purchase 

 being made by Compulsory Order ; and two 

 of the most important improvements made in 

 housing legislation by the passing of the Town 

 Planning Act were that any local authority 

 might by agreement acquire land and hold it 

 for purposes of building, although it may not 

 immediately intend to build ; and that any four 

 householders of the district can make a direct 

 appeal to the Local Government Board without 

 having to undergo the arduous labour of con- 

 verting opposing locally elected persons as to 

 the urgency of the case. 



This is, of course, a great step towards 

 obtaining the key to the situation. Yet in 

 spite of the simplification of procedure, some- 



