LAND AGGREGATION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10716, 8 October 1912, Page 4

LAND AGGREGATION.

1 The iWanganui Herald devotes an arI tide to tho question of laud aggrega-

ti>:i. L alleges that woTthy landowners are mopping up sinalf farms all over the Dominion, and cites the VV intrnpa as an illustration. Our eoi.temporary must- eitii'M 1 lie dreaming, or is <;.a.;\< obi.'.•;■' .:•.: •..•f :!;o tact:;. It is i-rii.' til :t. ir the Forty-Mile Mush there has bcvi a reduction in tho number of cum!! firms; but to attribute ibis to the "mopping-up" operations < f lar;ro landowners is to drew ::pon the imagination to a reckless degree. There are many small farm-; in the Hi.sb districts upon which the origin .1 settlors could .not make a living. 'Foe Land. 'Hoard bar. rightly permitted these to be amalgamated with others. To call this "aggregation"' in tf.o sense in wh'.oh it is intended, is grotesquely absurd. There has been no aggregation in the Wa: Tirana. In pcint of fact there has been a gradual reduction in the number <T large estates in this-distrivt, and we are In p"l'ul that under the n<'w political -conditions the process of subdivision will proceed, at a much mow rapid paw th:n in the past.