THE ENGLISH LAND QUESTION.
To the Editor. Sir.. —I was pleased to read your remarks on tile English land question, but I diller very much with both your con'o. t spondents as to tlie necessity of fiscal j reform, or. to call it by its proper name, "protection." For upwards of twenty years I lived in a farming community, my duties taking me continually into tile company of farmers., but never a wmd di.i i hear from them about fiscal reform or protect ion. Their complaints were: lieui- too higli, and game damages. What has greatlv helped to depopulate the rural lands has been the want of houses and a fair amount of land 011 which a working man could make a living. Instead of providingi houses, manv I have known have been allowed to get jnto such disrepair th it they were taken down and no othe-s erected in their places. Some years ago as farms became vacant two or more were thrown into one to lessen the 1111mlier of buildings to maintain. The fallacy of this was seen when agricultural depression came in consilience of bad s! ; a«r.-i<. Seme working farmers such we have H New Zealand nulled tlirnii'jh , succesbiuiiy, but others having large 1 holdings were unable to. One farm I remember in. particular was divided into
four, and has up to the present time comfortably supported four families astead of one, .\lr. Bates -.-ef i's to tieletting price of some farms as 12- !o los per acre. Cut them up into >mall foldings, and I venture to sav three or four times that amount would bj .v----quired. I remomijer "the ease of over 20 acres ot allotment gardens let m quarter to Half acre plots. It was still' clay with no improvements, and was rented at £8 per acre. Suddenly the noble lord decided to double it. and each occupier was served with a notice that, his rent in future would be £lO per acre: the tenancy was a monthly oil' 1 .-- 1 am. etc., ' COUNTRYMAN.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 298, 26 January 1910, Page 3
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340THE ENGLISH LAND QUESTION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 298, 26 January 1910, Page 3
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