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that the business relations between landlord and 

 tenant might be put on a more satisfactory footing." 



"They have the feeling that, providing the landlord 

 were to die, the tenant has no security whatever, 

 and that he may be turned out if the landlord likes, 

 if any difference arises about rent." 



**I heard of a great many cases illustrating this insecurity 

 of tenure. I would not take evidence of that char- 

 acter from any person unless he was able to 

 substantiate it. Estates would be picked out for me, 

 and cases would be given of where a good tenant 

 had to leave because he did not offer a sufficiently 

 large rent, and the farm would be taken in hand for 

 a year or two, and finally it would be let to some 

 other person for a lower rent . . . the farms were 

 pointed out to me that had gone through this." 



"I have no hesitation in saying that 75 per cent, of the 

 tenants who have mentioned that matter to me 

 would adhere to some system of arbitration. My 

 note-book is full of evidence of that." 



" There is a very strong opinion that the time has come 

 when there is some system wanted for amicably and 

 quietly settling disputes between landlords and 

 tenants upon all points." 



"The principle of arbitration was in the minds of those 

 men before I went near them at all, and they had 

 also opinions upon what this arbitrator ought to deal 

 with, and the qualifications that were necessary. 

 These, as they came before me one by one, were all 

 noted down in my books, and I tried to condense the 

 thing and produce it to you in this form." 



"The men who mentioned this question of the deter- 

 mination of the rent were chiefly those who kept 

 books." 



"They do not like the idea of a land court." 



" The general feeling was that the work should be done 

 through the board of assessors or their representa- 

 tive- (official arbitrator) appointed by the Board of 

 Agriculture." 



" If official arbitration could not be carried out without 

 the publicity that is inseparable from a court, and the 

 friction caused by landlord and tenant appearing in 

 person before a court, I am sure the great majority 



