41.   The fact that the local authority had the legal right to control the premises made them occupiers to the exclusion of the previous owners of the house.

42.   If there was a sphere in which the authorities had a certain justification for retreating from the policy of reform, it was that of higher education.

43.   Let them find, for example, that authority has clay feet.

44.   In this case either there will be downward pressure on interest rates, or the authorities will have to take other measures to reduce this liquidity.

45.   Faced with this excess demand, the authorities had to ration credit.

46.   Furthermore, it will mean that the authorities will have to make frequent and sizeable adjustments to interest rates.

47.   The authority has considerable discretion in this matter.

48.   This would occur where a local authority has definite plans for redevelopment in the near future.

49.   Planning authorities have the positive function of ensuring that mineral deposits are not unnecessarily sterilised by surface development but are kept available for exploitation.

50.   The authority has a rolling programme, and operates on a self-financing basis.