HOKITIKA.
This day. Mr G. E. Fitzgerald, M.H.R., both at Ross and here, spoke strongly against land nationalisation, and said that a freehold was the best tenure for the prosperity of the country, and was what attracted men to the colony; he argued that the legislature should either limit the area which any one man could hold, or should impose a progressive tax on holdings above a certain area; he preferred the former plan, but had no objection to a limited amount of agricultural land being leased by the Crown ; he was sure that the system would break down if an attempt were made to push it too fan-*
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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4740, 17 March 1884, Page 2
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109HOKITIKA. Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4740, 17 March 1884, Page 2
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