NOVEL REMARKS, IN A PRESBYTERY.
■ ..! ■■> _£. _ . •' LAND TENURES AND MINISTERS' : CALLS., (BI WUQKArB.—SPECIAL CCInMPONDBNT.) i . Chrlstchuroh, Juno 9. ' The trend of population in respect of land 1 tenures was a subject that crept into yesterday's meeting of tho Presbytery when a call was being considered from the charge of Opo-* tiki, in the Auckland province, to tho minis-; ter a.t Oust. The prospects of OpotLki in tho ; north were painted in glowing terms, while; the charge of Cust was said to be'"going back" as the result of removals from th« district. ' "We ar* suffering," said one speaker, "from the fault of a once closely settled district being collared by one farmer. Ho buys his neighbours' land, and instead of forty 'or fifty families onco, wo are now restricted to fifteen or twenty."
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 531, 11 June 1909, Page 3
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131NOVEL REMARKS, IN A PRESBYTERY. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 531, 11 June 1909, Page 3
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