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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 142, 23 May 1891, Page 2

On the subject of Railway Construction and Land Settlement,' the Wellington Press, in a trenchant article which appeared in that journal on .Wednesday last, said* The problem of settlement of the "•waste' lan'da * of New Zealand by private enterprise' has already been twice ■olved, with conspicuous succ bi — by the Manchester Corporation, and by the Wel-lington-Manawatu t Bailway Company* The settlement established, by the Man' chesfcer/Corporation will' compare favourably with-'a?J:settlemenfc in the world for honafide holders placed on the land, and the comfort 1 a'iid prosperity that it has been the means of supplying to thousands of people," the majority of whom would but for it have now been; even > worse oif , than the " unemployed ", whose wail comes up from various parts of the colony. The revenue which the Manchester Settlement has contributed, through Prof>ojr6 | y-tc»E aracl Customs, X>C£>a.rl>rx3t»rit&j jhEle repaid many times over the value of ,the block of land which was given to the Company. Our contemporary recommends that the Manchester Corporation 'system be adopted in places where the railways are already made, but where the Government Cannot find the necessary funds 'for roading, etc* Let the plan of the Wellington-Manawatu Company be applied where. there are important lines of railway to be constructed. , Feilding, says the New Zealand Times, has made the grandest record in New Zealand* so far as, the Census figures .enable us to judge.- A rural district, full of producers, making their way, whose numbers have grown by 50 ''per cent during the five years 1 Two thousand people have, by quiet process '6f settlement, grown inio three) and the three are prosperous, hearty, and vigorous. How has this come' about? The secret of l^eildin^ d worth studying, and when -discovered, worth applying on a large scale (til over the country* A. . sufficient number of teltlements 6n which an industrious^battaJion 1000 strong springs up every^fivo

years, would soon bring' New Zeahuid to her own — we mean to the pitch of prosperity and population her people are so fond of predicting.