About the same time he took another farm of mine at a rent of L35.

Since I came into my property in 1868 I have laid out upon it in drainage, buildings, and planting--here are the accounts, which you may look at--over L15,000, including about L8000 of loans from the Board of Works.

In the drainage the tenants got work for which they were paid.

I gave them slates for the buildings, with timber and stone from the estate, and they supplied the labour.

There is no case in which the outlays for improvements came from the tenants--not a single one.