THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
LAND SETTLEMENT.
The Minister of 'Lands has issued a warning to tiie owners of large blocks of land that are suitable for close settlement, out are being privately held. The prices that aie lining asked 1 w the properties, none or them of very cousideraoie aize, which have been placed under offer to the Government are so high that the Minister, desirous as he is to identify his department during his regime with a vigorous policy of settlement, is apparently unable even to contemplate the idea of effecting a purchase. Plain- z lv, landowners' who are asking for their properties double the amount of the valuation that is placed on them—this being; alleged in certain eases—are seeking a price which would impose upon the occupiers of the subdivided land an intolerable burden and involve tbe State in a sea of fresh troubles.
—Otago - Daily Times
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1929, Page 4
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149THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1929, Page 4
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