This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...in existence ten years, but it is sufficient to show what can be done under it, and that it is a workable measure. It will also be found, on examination, that it has been successful in the places where men of the non-territorial class have been on the Councils, men free from prejudice and who, from social and political ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...in existence ten years, but it is sufficient to show what can be done under it, and that it is a workable measure. It will also be found, on examination, that it has been successful in the places where men of the non-territorial class have been on the Councils, men free from prejudice and who, from social and political considerations, have taken a wide view of the question. This was the case in Worcestershire, where the County Council have put the Act in force with unqualified success. Mr. Willis Bund (barrister-at-law), Chairman of the County Council, took the wise and public-spirited view that as Parliament had placed the administration of the Act in the hands of local authorities, it was the bounden duty of those authorities to carry it out to the best of their ability; and there is no doubt that his view had great influence with the Council. It was two members of the Council--Mr. E. J. Bigwood and Mr. Frank Smith, both members of firms of estate agents and auctioneers in Birmingham--who suggested and pushed forward the purchase of the land for the purpose of small holdings.1 It may safely be said, therefore, that but for the presence of this class of men on the County Council, the experiment of creating a peasant proprietary in Worcestershire--if tried at all--would not have been carried out with the same vigour and--what is allimportant--with the same personal belief in the principle it contained. 1 See "County Council Times," December, 1904. Mr. Frank Smith is chairman of the Small Holdings Committee of the County Council, and was for many years hon. secretary of the Rural Labourers' League, the object of which is to promote all measures for the improvement of rural life. There can be no doubt that an Act which has been so successful in one ...
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