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fall out, the worker is liable to have his goods 

 and chattels pitched out on to the roadside. 

 Every tenant should be subject to six months' 

 notice, especially in view of the fact that he 

 has probably put much labour into his cottage 

 garden. And if the farmer must have a man 

 while he is waiting for the discharged employee 

 to leave, he should lodge him in his own farm- 

 house, which is generally contiguous to the 

 stockyard, and board and lodge him as was 

 the custom in the old days. 



But there is the general housing problem to 

 be solved ; and here let me clear up a popular 

 misconception as to housing administration in 

 rural districts. We have the Housing of the 

 Working Classes Act, and we have the Housing 

 and Town Planning Act, 1909, but in spite of 

 its powers and provisions to build, it has closed 

 eleven times more houses than it has built. 

 Although the Small Holdings and Allotments 

 Act of 1908 was in no way designed to be a 

 housing act, yet under its provisions many 

 more cottages have been built than under 

 the Housing Acts, and since the War, in the 

 administration of the Small Holdings and 

 Land Settlement Acts, the building of country 

 cottages on the larger estates now being broken 

 up has proceeded at a far more rapid rate. 



There is no administrative body which has 

 failed more disastrously in England in the 

 administration of local government than our 



