LORD ONSLOW.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1134, 23 May 1911, Page 5

LORD ONSLOW.

GIVES NOTICE TO EMPLOYEES AT CLANDON. A Press Association Guildford telegram Bays that on March 31 Lord Onslow gave notice to a large number of his employees on the Clandon Estate that their services would not bo required after June 30, and that their cottages would havo to be given up on tho same date. About fifty employees will be affected, some having been on the estate thirty or forty years. During the Budget debates Lord Onslow hinted that he might have to disperse the estates staff if additional taxation wera imposed, and have work on the estate done by contract., The notice states that Lord Cranley (Lord Onslow's son) hopes shortly to announce steps' he proposes to mitigate the inconvenience and loss which dismissal must necessarily cause tho employees, especially tho older men. Lord Onslow has two residences—Clandon .Park, Guildford, and Richmond Terrace, S.AV. He was until recently Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords, and has held office as Under-Sec-retary.. for the Colonics, Parliamentary Secretary to tho Board of Trade, Governor of New Zealand. Under-Secrotary for India, and President of tho Board of .Agriculture. Ho owns about 13,500 acres.

Two years ago Lord Onslow annonnced to his tenants at Guildford that ho felt it his duty to sell a considerable portion of his estates owing to .the new taxation on land and increased death duties. Their result, ho declared, would be to practically wipo out the agricultural income of the property altogether. Part of Lord Onslow's Surrey land was Mid at the Mart on July 27, 180!), but all the lots offered wcro not. disposed of. There is a model farm at Clandon, and the fine mansion is rich in artistic treasures.