LAND SETTLEMENT.
The Government has promised that, above all things, its attention will be devoted to the settlement of the iand. That he'ing so, the country has a right to expect that during ithe present isei&s-ton o'f Parliament some .specific measure w-iiil he parsed to facilitate the redemption cf this promise. It will not be necessary to traverse the "'Hole land question in one session. Jf the Government were to pass a sheJrt measure, with the object of encouraging; private owners to voluntarily subdivide, it would -be doing all that could be expected of it in itli!e .meantime. If provision' were imado for the guaranteeing of the interest c?n the private purchase of estates, provided that the price was satisfactory to the (Government, an impetus to settlement >woulcl at once ibe given. It is gratifying to know that private owndrs are sh-OAvting a disposition; tea s'uvrender a portion of their estates on the . voluntary principle.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10683, 1 August 1912, Page 4
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155LAND SETTLEMENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10683, 1 August 1912, Page 4
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