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the buildings i.e., 113 17s. will be written off at 

 the rate of 6 6s. per annum. 



As pointed out by Mr. Jonas, Lord Carrington's 

 agent, in his evidence before the Small Holdings 

 Committee, the extra payment on every holding 

 of 40 acres due to buildings is therefore as follows : 



s. d. 



5 per cent, on the house costing 31 2 10s. ... 15 12 6 

 4 per cent, on the buildings costing 90 ... 3 12 



Total 19 4 6 



Deduct (for cottage already held elsewhere 



by the tenant) 7 16 



Total increase due to buildings ... 11 8 6 



This sum on 40 acres works out at about 5s. 9d. 

 an acre to be added to the original rent of the land. 

 Mr. Jonas takes 40 acres as the basis of this calcu- 

 lation. But, as a matter of fact, the holdings are 

 more likely to be of 20 or 25 acres, in which case 

 the rise of rent per acre is very considerable indeed. 

 One is, of course, struck by the high price of the 

 houses when considered from the purely utilitarian 

 point of view of the small holder himself, and one 

 is tempted to ask : would he not have been better off 

 in a less pretentious house with a correspondingly 

 reduced call on his weekly earnings ? 



RENT. 



The grass land is let at 35s. to 45s. an acre, and 

 the arable at 33s., with the exception of one field 

 adjoining the main road, which is let at 40s. 

 Arrangements have now been made, however, to 



