LAND AGGREGATION

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 296, 10 September 1919, Page 10

LAND AGGREGATION

".DRASTIC PROVISIONS INDICATED. _ "Two serious attempts have been made in this country to istop land aggregation, one in 1913 and one in 1918," said the •Minister of Lands (Hon. D. H. Guthrie) |in the Houso of Kepresentatives. last ! night. ' "Loopholes have been' found in [the law on each occasion. But it' the • |Hoiise uasses this year the amendment jthat I anrgoing to propose, I think we (.will-stop aggregation. • Wf lt is mot so easy to stop aggregation . i»f'land as some people seem to think. A man aggregates the land that adjoins {his - holding, 'arid, he is able to pay . a (better prico for it than we could afford ■to pay for settlement by soldiers or any,bodv else. /We are going to stop aggregation if'ire possibly can. "Various methods of evasion have been used. Some people have evaded the law ;bv leading tho land with right of pur- ' chase instead of buying it. Or' they Ijttave bought land, and then divided the iwhole .property among tho inpmbers of .tho family in such" n way as to defeat the intention of tho law. If we pass tho new clause this year I think that .aggregation will be a thing of the past, 'because .tho man who aggregates will .suffer such a penalty that I think he .Will rievor do it again."