REMINISCENCES OF SIR G. GREY.
Mr J. C. Crawford, many years Resident Magistrate of Wellington, lias written a book styled “Recollections of travel m New Zealand and Australasia. Sir C. Grey figures prominently in the work, and one fact recorded about Sir George’s early land legislation reads strangely beside his recent diatribes against Canterbury gndntoning, ” and Government favour slioxin to estate him tin" capitalists:—" By this system free selection at L2 per acre — a very large number of freeholders have been settled on the land, whereas, if the price had been lower the whole of the Canterbury plains would have been bought up by a few capitalists, and the growth of settlement been long decayed. Tins is on theoretical idea for the result was neariy brought about by Sir George Grey during his first term of office as Governor. He r ® acre. In the province of Nelson a good deal of valuable land was parted with.at ‘rices of from 5s to 10s an acre. I allude KheAmm-i country. It is . misfortun« that this district was not included vnt\x in the boundaries of Canterbury. . . t
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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume II, Issue 156, 17 September 1880, Page 3
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184REMINISCENCES OF SIR G. GREY. Marlborough Daily Times, Volume II, Issue 156, 17 September 1880, Page 3
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