SETTLEMENT AND SPECULATION
WHILE there is a heartening note in the optimistic tone of the Commissioner for Crown Lands regarding settlement in the North, one should give keen ear to the rumblings of the bass and ask the Commissioner to ease accentuation on the treble. For sometimes there is a little “something” in the bass which may not be heard if the treble keys are thumped. The settlement of the Northern lands is very desirable, and the exceedingly easy terms offered by the Crown will, no doubt, restilt in thousands of acres being taken up. But the high notes of the song of settlement may smother the song of speculation, pitched in a lower key, but beautifully in tune for its purpose. So easy are the terms, indeed, that the taking up of this land by people who have funds for investment, cheaply to effect improvements and then to sell to the genuine settler at vastly enhanced rates when good times return, seems one of the best speculations going. What are the safeguards against speculation, and what are the encouragements offered, beyond the unimproved land itself, for genuine settlement ?
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 186, 27 October 1927, Page 10
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189SETTLEMENT AND SPECULATION Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 186, 27 October 1927, Page 10
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