3 OCTOBER 1925, Page 23

[To The Editor of the SPECTATOR.] am the owner of

between 8,000 and 3,500 acres of land which my father and I have gradually purchased during the last seventy years out of earned income at a cost of about £110,000 altogether. With the exception of about £200 a year for interest on loans I. am spending practically the whole of my rents (including sho-,ting rent) upon the estate,

although I admit that I live rent and rates free. What sort of compensation should I get intder the scheme, as I suppose my- personal interest in the estate which is the attraction to me goes for nothing as an'imponderabile am, Sir; &c., A SQTHREEN.