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XXII. — Report on the Plans of Labourers and Miners Cottages 
competing for the Prizes offered in connection with the Cardiff 
Meeting. 
Forty-two sets of plans of cottages for agricultural labourers, 
and fourteen for miners, were sent in competition for the prizes 
ofTered by tlie Marquis of Bute and Major Picton Turberville, 
but the Judges regret that there were none which they would like 
to send forth with such a stamp of approval as the obtaining a 
prize at the Royal Society's Show would convey. There were 
none possessing sufficient merit to entitle them to such a dis- 
tinction ; the best were copies of that known as the Leeds Plan, 
but without its simplicity and efficiency ; and experience has 
proved that cottages upon that plan cannot be built for the stipu- 
lated sum of 220/. per pair. The Judges would suggest that in 
offering prizes again for plans for agricultural labourers' cottages, 
no maximum cost should be fixed, but that the prizes should be 
offered simply for the best plan combining simplicity, economy, 
efficiency, and architectural effect. 
Although there was no set of plans which the Judges could 
commend as a whole, there was one (No. 40, entered by Mr. 
Hinc, Foreman of the Patent Brick Works, Worcester), which 
in its arrangements both of living and bed rooms possesses a 
simplicity, originality, and convenience, which may be worked 
into something very useful ; but the elevations given cannot be 
approved of. The Judges recommend that, with the sanction 
of the designer, this plan be published in the Society's ' Journal,' 
leaving out the elevations. 
And as to miners' cottages, there is no plan which appears to 
be free from grave objections and therefore none which the Judges 
would like to have considered a model for imitation ; conse- 
quently in this class, as in that for agricultural labourers' cottages, 
they recommend that the prizes be withheld ; and they venture 
to suggest for publication, a plan in use upon some mining pro- 
perties in the north of England, which seems to provide sufficient 
accommodation at the smallest possible outlay.* 
C. Kandell, 
Thos. Sample, 
Geo. Hunt. 
* Tho publication of tliese plans and the Keport of the Trials of Portable 
Steaai-Kngines has been unavoidably postponed. — Ed. 
