SMALL HOLDINGS IN BRITAIN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 23, 19 May 1914, Page 4

SMALL HOLDINGS IN BRITAIN.

l T p to December 31st last, according to a Board of Agriculture report, a total of 182,022 acres had been acquired in Great Britain under the Small Holdings Act, 125,971 acres having been purchased for £4,126,421, and 56,051 acres leased for rents aggregating £68,291 a year. Of this land 157,883 acres had been actually let by County Councils to 11,021 individual small holders, and 476 acres sold to forty-two small holders; while County Borough Councils had let 994 acres to 209 individual tenants. In addition, 8037 acres had been let to vsixty-one co-operative small holdings associations, who had sub-lot the land to 1424 of their members, and 3314 applicants had been provided with over 44,000 acres by private landowners direct. Land acquired by County Councils, but not yet let in small holdings, amounts to 14,255 acres, which it is estimated will provide for 817 applicants and one association, and County Boroughs have about 700 acres not yet allotted, which will probably provide for at least another 100 applicants. It appears, therefore, that the Act has resulted in the provision of small holdings for 17,005 applicants in six years.