LAND FOR THE PEOPLE.
The ca-y of "land for the people" 1 as already gone up from the floor of the House. The,, Minister/, for Internal Affairs assures?,tihe country tlh&tiisaiJK-i tlemont is progressing in satasfiac-! Tory manner. -His friends, "however, 1 positively, that tMfeas not the case., The hundreds* of • youngs men'' who jiare in searoh :i o|,, ( ;ti,omes:,, ,^#w ; | •that it'i^ti^^ Settlement Act has been almost a dead letter for years past. It wa« never anything else, so far a 9 the Miasterton district is concerned. And it is idle for the Government to say that the prices' asked for land , are beyond the means of the State. People are willing to pay a fair market price for,land, and the State has ample power to acquire it at that price.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10305, 4 August 1911, Page 4
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131LAND FOR THE PEOPLE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10305, 4 August 1911, Page 4
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