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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2337, 2 November 1908, Page 6

“One often 'hears the cry of inflated land values,” said the Premier in Christchurch. “Well, I was in a district the day .before yesterday where genuine farmers were buying land at from £26 to £4O per acre. In conversation with some of these men I was told that they could get good returns even from land at that price. They were not speculative buyers either. Most of them were small far■mers. They pointed cut that the butter production of the land was now higher, and that they were getting lid per lb. for butter fat. as against 8d lately ruling. Sixpence per pound would pay them, so that you >see the rise in laud values is perfectly legitimate, and nothing is so convincing os actual concrete facts. These men are full of courage. They know they ■are doing well, and their purchasing land at high prices is fully justified by the results. At Feilding the only fear is that they, will not have enough trucks to carry away the stock that will he dispatched from that station talon e.”

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