SMALLER SECTIONS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 207, 26 May 1908, Page 3

SMALLER SECTIONS.

WHAT ■ HAPPENED AT LANGDALE. ".You . may- say .\what, ; you.' Uk'e,'' said a Bush farmer to a Dominion representative, V.but I am' of opinion that in taking land' : for settlements the areas should be on a smaller scale than now. lam a prac- : ticab farmer, . and *1 have seen the. residents at ! Ballance and other places getting a good - 'start."'oA -five or acres, whereas had they taken'iip. a : hundred.acres of lapd with standing bush they would have been ruined. , No, I do not mean that a "man and his family should, always sj^p,.on'the, small .section. It . is against.human nature to'eipect'liim'to do that';* r but.'.the small' area, with, the-equally small rental—something like Is.'sd; per week i for'.five- acres and a house—is: a stepping- ■ stone!. Put the '-men-on the land, I say, and givo'-them a, ch'dnco. •' Would; you .'believe' it,: Langdale could easily i have'' supported' twic6 the number of ;; inhabit'ants that it has now, It fact that some of. the Langdale farm-ers-havo sold their leases and made :a profit of-from' £1000" to £3000. ". The credit! of the ; Dominion is thus Mortgaged to . benefit-'a few; and this is why L say-that when 'the Government opens up the .land it should not be in too large areas." -Hy-?