LAND COMMISSION.
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mu t , ' Dunedin, iast night. The Land Commission took evidence at upnir to-day, some of the witnesses advooating cutting up runs into small grazing Sinnn , SE,id a man could make £IOOO out of 1000 owes on Moutere and Matakmo ; 2000 acres would graze 1000 sheep. The superintendent of Blackstoue Bill run, and himself a farmer and holder of a.small grazing run, said he did not know of land on the runs referred to oapable of carrying the number of sheep mentioned by the last witness. In 1895 I I sqnnn 830 ? th ' r °ugh snow was rr ’ n°°‘ -a 1 ? 190l 90 n 3 , t,iey loßt 17,000. ,Mr I Hall said ho had been sheepbreeding for a number of years, and had not learnt the secret of making £1 per ewe. One witness suggested doing away with rabbit inspectors, who seemed a fine stamp of wnTlr oa Pf. ble . ° f doing pick and shovel work. All witnesses favored the freehold. One said he was satisfied with his lease in fKffiii""'™"’ ut ° ile «
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1405, 16 March 1905, Page 2
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177LAND COMMISSION. Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1405, 16 March 1905, Page 2
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