LAND AGGREGATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1883, 28 September 1918, Page 2

LAND AGGREGATION.

OLE Palmerston morning contemporary has been grappling with the land aggregation problem. It has published a number of articles on this subject which makes interesting reading. Our contemporary urges that “no man has a right to hold land which he does not bring to the most profitable use, and no man has a right to monopolise either the soil, the air, or the water, which is a common heritage of the Almighty.to the sons of the earth. The land monopolist is a social pest, and should be eliminated, not because he is not usually an amiable and sometimes even a generous person, but because he has got something which does not belong to him, and because by his over-possession he is standing in the way of the development of tiie country along rational and scientific lines. War with its terrible logic lias thrust aside the land monopolists in the older countries. They were standing between the populaces and their means of sustenance. We' have not reached that stage in New Zealand, but there are evidences on every hand of the evils attendant upon the adding of acre to acre and field to field by greedy individuals intent on gain or aggrandisement. It is not these individuals who are to blame, however. It is the supine electorates which throw in their support to the political upholders of the system and who give ear to the sophistries and, apologetics of their journalistic eluquers.”