ECONOMY AND WASTE 



IN Parliament and in the Press the practice of 

 economy is strongly urged on private persons 

 and on the public generally. 



The Prime Minister in his speech in Parliament 

 on June 29th said " Waste, whether by the 

 private person or by the community, is a 

 national danger." This is a remarkable state- 

 ment by the Prime Minister of a country where 

 in one important direction universal waste pre- 

 vails. The waste through the non-cultivation of 

 the soil is almost incalculable. Some idea of its 

 extent might be formed by noticing the low 

 price of land which is caused by its low produc- 

 tion. On this head an instructive little pamphlet 

 entitled the " Land Question " was written by a 

 member of a firm of land agents. 1 The pamphlet 

 gives particulars of hundreds of thousands of 

 acres of land sold by the firm in thirty-seven 



1 Sir Howard Frank of the firm of Knight, Frank and 



Rutley. 



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