NEW ZEALAND LAND LEAGUE.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 18, 10 August 1886, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND LAND LEAGUE.

——— ;o; (From Examiner Atigust fi.i oamaki is the head quarters of tin orgiinisution culled the New Zealand I .and League. It has for its object the sub-division and settlement of the landed estates. Now we consider there is no district in which a better opening exists for a Land League than Hawke's Hay. There ought to be a Land Jergue i stablished in this provincial district with its head quarters at Napier. Such a league should have as its first and last objects the nub-division and settlement of the large landed estates in Iluw ki s Huv If the owners would not ague to act. let a monster petition he signed. Something like ten thousand names could la obtained to such a petition. I.i t this petition go hi fore the House and let legislation be demanded for the purpose of carrying out this project. Of course we shall he told that this would he interfering with private rights. The an • tiling was said when tin anti-slavery movement was going on : tin same thing is said to-day against the temperance movement; and the same thing will be said till the end of time by these who are so selfish as to consider that none but them have any rights. We say that socict v has a right to interfere w ith even thing which is for the general welfare, and m the land question more than any other. Who made the lands of llawki s Hay valuable? who paid the taxation to open up the country and settle it. and make railwavs through it to add to its value ? Did tin hr gc landow in isdo it ? No, they stir hi illy bv and reaped the gains. It w. -.tin taxation derived from the | q through the Customs duties placed on tin ii food and uccessarn sof life which did all thi-. Nay mure, it was lh< industry of the tr opic which made thest lands in the liitijii - <<t a ft vv monopolists so Valuable. Are tin peopb then to be shut out from saying a word about that which tin country owes them ? Are they to be debarred from asking fan play ; from di tnanding that the land which (lod lias - iven humanity tc li-e and not to abuse shall be uscdfoi the purpose for which it was intended, and not for tin self-glorification and satiation of vanity of a few “ bloated aristocrats? We say no. It is the right, nay the duty of men to d. ■ maud then legitimate privileges, not for their own sake's but for the sake > of tliO'i who shall come after them. Let i vi ry man in Hawke's Hay taki up this question! Let every man with that dignity which marks his nobility and high destiny, speak with no unci rtain voice in regard to tin settlement of these lands. Then we shall se. Hawke's Hay a hive of in du-try and the home of thousandso happy prosperous families—prosperous in that self-depending und aide pi mb ucc which is the glory ul irut manhood.