THE FREEHOLD.
The Auckland Star, in a leader on the jubilee of t'he Paparoa district, makes somo remarks to which tlio attention of leaseholders may bo drr. wn. ii.it, it is asked l , was the inspiring motive that induced tliese people to make a voyage of thirteen thousand miles, and enduro such, hardships in a new land? Many of the settlers ivere tradesmen w'ho held comfortable positions in England, and liad saved money, and when they arrived in the town of Auckland there was fir ther temptation to remain there. "1 lie one pervading motive for which sulierings wen? cheerfully home by these sons and daughters of a liborty-lovinir ancestry was the desire to possess land of their own. to attain full peisonal freedom, with rm < verlord to control or limit- their independence." Pxaetlv flic be-4 settlers came to Xew Zealand for freedom, to possess land of their own, and the leasehold never will satisfy .»jiich men.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 1736, 22 January 1913, Page 4
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157THE FREEHOLD. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 1736, 22 January 1913, Page 4
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