TRANSFERS OF LAND.
A return which has just Oeen published shows that, since the year, 1896, no fewer than '2,474 transfers of. land held under the "Land for Settlements Acts" have been made in New Zealand, and that the goodwill obtained by those transferring has totalled £1,095,738. What has the land'rationalizer to say to this? It is reasonable to suppose that; had the settlers been given the right of purchase-, the trafficking in: land would hot have been anything like what it'is shown, to. have been during ,til©- last..fourteen years. 'The : Government lease lends itself to trafficking, and the unearned; increment we hear - so much about is being appropriated from Crown leases in a far greater ratio than it could possibly "be -under other conditions. .
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10191, 17 March 1911, Page 4
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125TRANSFERS OF LAND. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10191, 17 March 1911, Page 4
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