POLITICAL POINTS.
♦ "-MK.N OF A .MILLION ACRES." The Government says there is no salable land at present available for improved farm settlements, and tie I'iviuicr says there will be none until it is acquired from the natives (says the Wanganui Herald). lie doesn't say whether he intends to get any from the unlives, hut as he thinKs native land the sole remedy for the position, it may he asked if he wishes to continue .ho present state of affairs, as set out in the New Zealand lear Honk:--In Auckland I'rovincia,! District, ;i0 person* hold a million' acres, 111 llawkc's Kay, 20 persons hold just sljort of a million acres. In Wellington 1 rovinee, 41 persons StiO.OOO acre*; In Marlborough, 2.5 persons own a million and a-l|al{ acres, In, Nelson, 40 persons own a millijn acres, In Canterbury, 23 persons own over two million acres, In Otago, 32 persons own over three million acres, In Southland, 2D persons own over a million acres,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 264, 15 December 1909, Page 1
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162POLITICAL POINTS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 264, 15 December 1909, Page 1
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