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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 450, 6 February 1909, Page 2

Thr Auckland Herald, dealing with the present depression after counselling reasonable economy both in private and public affairs, urges the Government to increase the exports of the Dominion by opening up the land. “ What the Government ought to do, ” it says, “is to open up the locked up lands. There are hundreds and thousands of stalwart men anxiously waiting for an opportunity to get to work upon the laud, which opportunity, for some mysterious motive, the Government declines to give them. By the settlement of the idle land, by the making, productive of what is now waste, the export trade of the Dominion can be surely and swiftly revived, and the loss caused by falling prices and bad seasons most effectively guarded against. When men want to work on idle laud and the whole community feels the effect of a reduced national income, not to pursue an active laud settlement policy is unpardonably bad administration.”