A MODEL LANDLORD.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1213, 13 January 1886, Page 5

A MODEL LANDLORD.

The late Earl of Shaftesbury was evidently a model landlord, to judge from the following taken from " The Times": — As a landlord he was just, and yet generous, and fully alive to his great responsibilities. The village of Wimborne, St. Giles, was transformed under his care into a model village. He built new laborers' cottages, each containing a front parlor and kitchen on the ground floor, with three bedrooms above, absolutely unconnected with each other. Every cottage has its apricot tree, its pump, its separate sanitary arrangement, its pigsty, and its quarter-acre allotment — the laborer paying for all these things only 32s per annum. The tenants were never behind with their rents, but the Earl was content with a small percentage on his original outlay. The woods round Wimborne, St. Giles, ara very large and not overstocked with game, for the late landlord held strongly to the principle that it was unfair to preserve too much. Almshouses and other advantages are offered to those who are beyond work, and in this village, apparently, " all goes merry as a marriage bell." Lord Shaftesbury spent some period every year upon the estate, although his numerous public undertakings made serious inroads

upon his time. But amid all other engagements, he never forgot that charity which begins at home.