CORRESPONDENCE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 299, 20 November 1874, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

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(To the Editor of the Mount Ida Cjihoniclk.)" Sib,—lf the Government would expend a quarter ot a million, in buying back some of the fine agricultural land that has passed away wholesale to capitalists and re-allot the land to be^settled on in moderate sized farms, say of 320 up to 640. acres, either, on permanent leases or- giving so many years to pay. for, the: farm with interest, which would be a safe in2 vestment for the' Government, as well 'as a lasting source of revenue for the country, there might- be some thousands of people settled, upon the lands. It is well known that most of the agricultural land is sold, and the best thing that can be done is to buy it back again. Let settlers that will be producers of colonists be encouraged, not solitary Alexander Selkirks, monarchs of all they survey on. mountain tops- while the plains they survey are productive of nothing but desolation and sheep, and there would be no fear but. what New Zealand could carry the bur-' den of debt she is incurring without fait-. termg. Otherwise—the deluge. lam 050., , .; . • " .... Eeratic. ' —— ■ —_ ••• -