LAND SETTLEMENT.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 144, 28 May 1891, Page 2

LAND SETTLEMENT.

. TO THE EDITOR OF THB STAR. Sir, — In continuation of my letter ifl your last issue : — ln the second place, I would propose that an Association be formed from members of -"a Lodge or an Assembly so that they would know each other as brothers, and be. satisfied with each, other to become neighbors (for a great deal depends on their future happiness, welfare, and peace in being neighborly) and' to, take up a block of land t under the Inheritance Act. It mnst be ; . good level land (not the corrugated kind. \ of country that will neyer be fit for anything but goats or sheep). It, must be land which in future years' can be ploughed, and that only the center cross* roads be a chain wide, all the others half a chain, and that fiye acreß on each corner of the center cross road be set apart for a school,' co-operative store, hall, church, and any trade-shop that would be required, and, I might mention, it would be a good idea to select all from onereligion so that one church would do for the block. This would do away with atownship and save a lot of land, as there are too many little pretty townships in New Zealand already, keeping idle sections of good land which cannot be made* use of. If it be forest land let them have 21 years to pay it off ; if open country ID years to pay it in, with no compulsory improvement clauses, because the more? they improve the better for themselves asthey would not be taking up the land on speculation. If a Neighborly Association like this were to be formed, it coidd be arranged by the Master of their Lodge ,to settle any disputes by Arbitration. I will not say- any more until I hear what the public opinion is. — I am, &c, E.D., Makino.