A LANGUISHING COUNTRY.
The North Island is blotted with locked-up lands, Crown and Native. Mr R. M'Kenzie has told us that the land along the East Coast route alone would carry in comfort and at once half a million people. The Main Trunk runs for many miles through blocked-up land and Maori lease paralysed townships. Land settlement has been brought to a standstill, apparently, says the Auckland "Herald," in order to force settlors to accept the iniquitous terms of the Maori Land Boards, and the harsh conditions of the "endowment" scheme. Meanwhile trade languishes, employment fails, workmen are leaving in shoals. There is no work in the cities because work has been wilfully stopped in the bush.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9531, 1 July 1909, Page 4
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117A LANGUISHING COUNTRY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9531, 1 July 1909, Page 4
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