CHAPTER XIV. 



SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS. 



1. Minimum wage of 23s. for agricultural labourers. A 

 fifty-hour week and one half-holiday a week. Sunday work 

 to be distributed as far as possible. 



2. Tenant farmers to have the option of bringing con- 

 tracts with their landlords to an end within 6 months 

 of the enforcement of the Minimum Wage Act. 



3. A State survey of cottage accommodation. Local 

 authority to be given two years to make up deficiency, 

 failing which no grants in aid from Exchequer for any 

 purpose. 



4. Loans to local authorities for cottage building to be at 

 lowest rate of interest, coupled with a State grant in aid of 

 cottage building equivalent to the sinking fund, and half 

 deficiency on annual rent account provided such deficiency 

 is properly incurred. 



5. Land Commissioners to be appointed. 



6. Powers to Land Commissioners and to local authority 

 to acquire land compulsorily at valuation whenever wanted 

 for any purpose, or whenever insufficiently developed, or in 

 anticipation of future uses. 



7. An irredeemable mortgage on land in lieu of part of 

 Death Duties. 



8. Compensation to outgoing tenant of small holdings not 

 to be charged to small holder when of no value to him. 

 Sinking fund likewise. 



9. Experimental farms to be formed by local authority 

 in small-holdings areas. 



10. Free farm schools in agricultural districts. 



11. Travelling agricultural instructors. 



12. More money and executive powers to be given to 

 Development Commission. 



13. Nationalisation of railways. 



14. State motor service. 



15. Afforestation. 



16. Grants in aid of local services to be systematised and 

 made conditional on a national minimum standard of 

 efficiency. 



17. Abolition of the Poor Kate. 



