BRITISH RURAL LANDS.
REPORT OP INQUIRY COMMITTEE.
By Telegraph—Prose Association—OopyrigW
(Rcc. October 16, 1.16 a.m.)
London, October 15. iihe first portion of the report of Mr. Acland's Land Inquiry Committee has been issued. Its chief recommendations aro: (a) wages boards ; (b) a. fixed statutory minimum wage for agricultural labourers; (c) land courts for tho readjustment, of rents ; (d) extension of small holdings by giving land courts power to fix a reasonable purchaso prico; (e) Stato sinking fund for tho purchase of land; (f) tho repeal of the Gamo Law restrictions; (g) special taxation of land used for sport.
Tho report declares that 120,000 now cottages aro required. Rural councils should compel owners' to make adequate provision for cottages.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1882, 16 October 1913, Page 7
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118BRITISH RURAL LANDS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1882, 16 October 1913, Page 7
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