ABSTRACT

This chapter suggests that the post-war price policy should be a continuance and a development of that which was being adopted piecemeal before the war, that is to say, the nation’s price policy should be directed to maintaining standard prices, certainly wholesale, and as far as possible retail, for the main articles of agricultural produce. Land-owning of cultivated land and of other rural property takes in the country five main forms. They are: Ownership by the State as a central organization; popularly called “nationalized” land. Ownership by the State represented by local authorities such as County and Parish Councils. Ownership by corporate bodies, such as the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and Colleges. Ownership by the Crown, including cases as the Duchy of Cornwall, where ownership vests in a member of the Royal family. Ownership by private individuals.