THE LAND BILL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 32, 1 November 1907, Page 11

THE LAND BILL.

_ '.Sir, —I quito,agree with your leading article in "a ..papor on Dr. Mndlay!s foolish ..speech on the Government Land Bill and the nationalisation of 9,000,000 acres of' New Zealand land.l havo travelled; on, a first-class railway'line in Australia for ; miles at;a stretchithrough;sorao of the finest iblacksoil land ito, bo .found anywhere. On both sides the land belonged .to the, State Government/ arid Was over-run with 'senfb. and bush, arid'mll of rabbits jetti I .' Like tho! dog in the manger; 'the Government could not do anything .with'; tlio land themselves uor would they let anyone olsohiivd it. 1 ' I have seen in Australia some of the finest deep-jyatdr frontages to be found iri'any part of'the ! at any 'rate, for shipbuilding "purposes and 'the like' to the Clyde ,iri 'Scotland or 'the Tyrie' in England: Yet 1 all thdse'frontages havo' belonged;to'the'G'oVorn-' m"erit. ; 'fbr' the/last'loo years,'; arid'are now no .better 7 than'riiangrove swaihps/^ r Again, .the' State Government could do nothing With' these"fi;prita , ges''thomselves, iibr would .they let'anyone'else exijloit'tliem; ;I' have' travelled'''ranriy '-miles in the New Zealand'! trains;,! wsd "found splendid lanr] .' on one'-;side'at' a;-.}'' rate' belonging to the com-' munity (Maori), and the community could not do anything with the nor, will ,they let .the individuals'have. it. suit 1 ;; A'.wilcleyness df/nbxious/Wqbc'.s and-rab-bits.' [Dr/'Firirllay^is.' a v city, ; inari ; .bpr'n and; bred/and-lia's" no.'practical what-' ever ofthe landlquestiori'.'—l ain",,ct<! :l .. ■Wellington; October 30/1907.