LAND FOR SETTLEMENT.
In liis annual report on the operations of the "Land for Settlements Act, 1908," the Land Purchase Inspector states, that eighty-one properties, containing 350,708 acres, were 'purchased. The Inspector gives as a reason for not purchasing a, large number of estates that "the margin between, the purchasing and letting value was not considered sufficient to warrant the State accepting the responsibility of placing settlers upon the land." It would he interesting to know exactly what margin the State considers safe. And why have the compulsory clauses of the Act not ■been put into, operation? It is significant thaty although the Inspector says, "there is an unsatisfied demand' for land, and every endeavour is being imade to meet isuch," no attempt has .been made to exercise the statutory right possessed/by the Crown of acquiring land ion the valuation of an Assessment Court.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 1039, 21 August 1911, Page 4
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144LAND FOR SETTLEMENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 1039, 21 August 1911, Page 4
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