CLOSER SETTLEMENT.
‘'PERSONALLY knowing the district well,” said the Hon. W. D. S. MacDonald, at Gisborne recently, “I am strongly of opinion that there should be very considerable subdivision of tiie large esfates so as lo allow of an increase in soldier settlers and ordinary civilian settlement. All these matters, however, should be sellled in a manner satisfactory alike to (lie owners of (he land and the new settlers. In regard to I lie large holdings in this district it must he remembered that, in a number of cases, those at present in occupation had done the spade work and had purchased their land under (he laws of that day. They are therefore entitled to protect ion by whatever Government is ruling the disiinies of the country.” With (he increase of population and the immigration of the future, however, said Mr MacDonald, no one would deny that it would become necessary, in fact il had already become necessary, to revise the system of land ownership and occupation, which would have to he remodelled with a view to utilising the, whole of the land to the best advantage in the interests of the people of the Dominion.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19190109.2.7
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1924, 9 January 1919, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
196CLOSER SETTLEMENT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1924, 9 January 1919, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in