Lord Derby, in a recent speech on Temperance Hotels, stated that the average price for an acre of good agricultural land was L6O, or as nearly as possible 3d for every square yard. “ I wonder,” said bis Lordship, “ how many working-men consider that when they order threepenny worth of beer or spirits they are swallowing down a square yard of good agricultural land. (Laughter.) Or. to put it in another way, supposing cut of our national drinking hill of LU0, 000,000 we could annally. save L 60,000,000, supposing this moder-. ate reduction were continued for ten years only, how much land do you sup-, nose that the working classes could buy out of that saving ? It is a very simple sum—lo,ooo,ooo acres, or just eight-of the whole soil of this island,
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Temuka Leader, Issue 302, 9 October 1880, Page 2
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131Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Temuka Leader, Issue 302, 9 October 1880, Page 2
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