THE LAND BILL
MR HOGG'S OPINION
Mr A. W. Hoger, interviewed by a Wellington newspaper reporter, expressed a preference for the graduated tax rather than the compulsory leasing propyls as a means of forcing the compulsory leasing scheme , too drastic," he remarked. "It is so extreme that it ought only to be used in the last resort. It the graduated tax is properly administered the leasing method would be unnecessary. People with large areas not in a position to work them properly will be* only too glad to sell to the Crown at a reasonable price, or break up their estates themselves. In many instances they are doing it now." Mr Hogg waa absolutely against the conversion of the lease in perpetuity, and believed that those who really wanted to make tneir homes on the land would not, take advantage of the Government's offer. To allow the conversion principle to apply to land for settlement land would, in his opinion, facilitate the operations of speculators.'
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10089, 10 September 1910, Page 5
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165THE LAND BILL Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10089, 10 September 1910, Page 5
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