LAND SELECTION.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3684, 15 October 1880, Page 3

LAND SELECTION.

(To the Editor of the EyjsipKa Stab.)

Si«,—l was pleased to notice in your leader last night that you suggested giving away the waste lands of this .Island for nothing' pro Tided the selector cultivated the same at once. |q these depressed times the suggestion is a good, one, and would, at .all events The an opening for some of the unemployed. lam told that in one of the Australian colonies—Victoria, 1 think^there is a system by which, when a selector has effected a certain proportion of improvements on his selection,a Government valuer revalues the land with such improvements, and the Government will then advance 75 per cent, of such value as a loan ni small interest.. t X, wonder how the scheme would wbrir here, or would our present financial deficit be a bar thereto?—l am, Ac.,

Inquibee.

; [We have not the Victorian Land Regulations by us just now, but we believe there is some such provision as the one our correspondent mentions.-—

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