LAND REFORM.
STATE LANDLORDISM AND LEASES. Received May 17, 9.8 a.m. . LONDON, May 16. Mr W. M. Hughes, Labour member of the Commonwealth Parliament, and a delegate to the Navigation Conference, in an article in the Daily Chronicle, asserts that the freehold tenure of land is the curse of Australia and the ruin of England. He urges State ownership with leaseholds at an economic rental, subject to periodical re-appraisement, or a tax on the unimproved value of land.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8445, 18 May 1907, Page 5
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78LAND REFORM. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8445, 18 May 1907, Page 5
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