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Taranaki Daily News, 21 July 1919, Page 12

As an American newspaper said recently, "The groat psoblcm of the next decade will be to obliterate tlie estrangement that lias come ,to exist between mankind and plough-handles." In New Zealand tlie spirit of tlie land speculator is the enemy of production, tlie disturber of peaceful <md contented homes, and the barrier against- ,tho better housing and more efficient occupation of the people. Farming has become more , a business of land speculation than of agriculture; town residents living in homes of their own are being daily pestered to sell out at what looks like a clear profit, only to find that they cannot replace the home they sold at anything like the price they got for it. '.Die process is unsettling and inimical to the best interests of tlie State.—LyttelwTww— --