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and supply a stepping-stone to the acquisition of 

 larger interests, and they will check the tide of 

 emigration which to-day runs highest in those 

 very districts where the wages paid are sufficient 

 to enable men to save money, while the lack of 

 opportunities to get on encourage them to emi- 

 grate to countries where land is easily obtained. 

 Anyone acquainted with the present conditions of 

 life in an ordinary English village knows how un- 

 satisfactory and disorganised they are. However 

 much a man may save, there are no opportunities 

 for employing his savings in the village itself, 

 and a labourer cannot be blamed if he decides that 

 so far as he is able he will send his children away 

 to save them from the blind-alley existence which 

 he has led himself. 



(8) Housing : There is no doubt that a large 

 number of young men leave the country because 

 they cannot find a decent house to live in, when 

 they wish to marry. Various Housing Acts have 

 been passed which probably cover the ground 

 pretty well, and it only remains for them to be 

 put into force as soon as the time is propitious. 



(9) Land Purchase : The proposal that tenants 

 for life should be entitled to retain, say, 20 or 15 

 per cent of the purchase money of settled land, 

 deserves consideration. If such an arrangement were 

 made it should be understood that the money so 

 retained by the Life Tenant should be devoted to 

 the development of the remaining portions of his 

 Estate. This procedure has had excellent results in 

 Denmark. 



The facilities for the acquisition of land should 

 not be confined to small holders. There have 



