TRANSFERS OF LAND.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10662, 18 June 1912, Page 5

TRANSFERS OF LAND.

[To The Editor.] Sib,— I was very mucli taken up in reading your leadalng article on "Trafficking dn' Land." We will put you or any of your friends on; one . cif itlhe forms that our: "Liberal" Gov:cirnmac(nlt have. cut up this last three jrCiaiPS), and see what you will do at the end cf that time. W'hy, like thefeet-, look for a bigger place. • The (farms now being iptot oto the market sire- - nothing but a bare living, and hardly .that. I hhve onio of those sottolled "liheruT" Government dairy and sheep farms, which I find with all my careful working will' not rum (thirty cows and yomnig stock, say '.sax oallves. Now to the business, iside.. We milk twenty-five cows and Jhe'fefs mixed. My takings will not exceed £8 per head (we can't have ■ the ibeet straightaway.; giye us time Ito rear .them). This giv<§£. a ; Miturnr of £2OO a year. o'iit 'of'tins I have to pay rent, rates and taxes, a.nid inf lAroance, £BO. This leaves £1,20 a year to pay wage's (» .boy £SO a year), Kind the keep of the house, to pay lir>t(hing aAbout .wear hnd tear and ntuoneinoiUjs other items. jWhait are we T o do? We have given' onfe of these go called'farms a go. We have to look fcr a larger place: or p'art with our fam:i!y. No, the so-called 1 Liibeial Government aire far too liberal, but not with land. The tr„able is, -they djt'e tcyfejjjc to place too m.an'y on fern all pieces cf land.. Until they out vtlhe) dairy cr eheep forms up to the size .that a man can 1 miilk forty cows and youmig sitloclk 1 , or pvo. irat'a in ivheep, they find this continual applying for transfers. Let the Land IBoard .members have a talk with some c.f cix.yC(amngton. settlers, and they will soon form a'n idea cf the troubli* they eau?e. They must 'provide Inirge'r farms, and make .room litor o. .growing family. Then we will have fewer itjraneif-eos, cr'.tra-msfers will fee a thing of the pafiit. Small sections mean "clear out and make .room foil' 'the family."— I am, etc., A, LIBERAL SUFFERER. •Carterton, June il7, 1912.