LAND VALUES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 5, 25 May 1914, Page 3

LAND VALUES

TIIK PUKCUASE SOlffiAlK The position now is that our Und'pitr- i chase system lluis -biviiun ckvwn, and we have coims to tliia pussi, tliat one sec- I tion of ti!i« w-nvmuwty is ilw landloiu ] of anothar section, of tae ooiuimmity: districts like the vVuiiurapo. have be- I come hide-bound for the l;u:k of fat-i----ties for expansion; the largt; landowner;; have become firmly entrenched in uhciT nvoniopcdy; and mwLhor political party ha« title tonnage to a-polv the. only available remedy —the taxation of land values. h the J-luwke's liay, Marlborough, and YVairarajia, districts the monowalists i are, in po»Hc:-vion. They cjin afford to laugh at the devices, of t'lve politicians I in the \\\iy of graduated taxation because of the persistent growth of land values fiwni year to year. Each attempt on the part of bind' reformers to apply the axe to the Toot of monopoly is .TcpiTSt'iiUtl by the monopoly newnpapors as an "attack upon the farmer," and the real prtdtrcers of the (>.omtnniiiit\% particular! v in uhe dairying distract*, are either rack-rented or mortgaged up to th<? kilt. What New Zealand "wauls more than anything else'is it Lloyd <ieorge w-itli the .industry to liring out Ui« facts and the courage to devise drastic method* of tt-ting the and monopolist' and) watering to the people theii- rightful heritage.—Ohristch itrch News.