A ROYAL LANDLORD.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13106, 15 May 1911, Page 1

A ROYAL LANDLORD.

The King is taking a personal interest in tho reconstruction of the Keimington estate of tho Duciiy of Cornwall, which is being done pictc- > meal as leases fall in. Tiie gisnoiaf scheme approved by the King is to 1 maintain the characteristics of the present buildings wherever those features are pleasant and popular, especially in Kennington Park road, where large, old-fashioned houses may be found. Tho King does not appnne of flats, as he thinks that they aie not conducive to home life for tho working classes, and interspersed between the blocks of such dwellings , that have been erected on the Kennington estates there will be placed, at his expressed wish, small houses ut weekly rents, or houses, built for occupation by two. families, with separate gardens, Ilis Majesty is sacrificing an enormous amount of revenue in order to carry out his ideas, and lias commanded that houses shall stand empty until those contiguous are tonantless. Then when houses are empty in groups they will in sci.i c cases be demolished, and rebuilt v.s cottages of four or five rooms, with ;.ll modern appliances, to be let to artisans at rentals of about 10s a week. —"Standard of Empire."