Roughly speaking, this is the way in which property has been locked up for centuries _ in the United Kingdom and the way in which wealthy men are" quietly locking it up in New Zealand and in some of the other colonies. It is easy to prevent their doing so. It will be hard to cure the evil if it be allowed to gain head and when great vested interests cluster around it. We do not suppose there are now half-a-dozen large landed proprietors in the Colony who indulge the dream of founding a ruling family. They regard their land as so much money making material and no more. They could not now offer any strong opposition to the abolition of those old feudal laws under which unnatural restriction has become possible. But if these half-dozen die and tie up their land in the way we have described, their example would be contagious, and the number of imitators soon swell considerably.
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Observer, Volume 2, Issue 37, 28 May 1881, Page 400
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160Untitled Observer, Volume 2, Issue 37, 28 May 1881, Page 400
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