TO CORRESPONDENTS.
~ A.B.—There are three ways of obtaining land in the United States. One is by the recently enacted Homestead Law under which any emigrant on signifying his intention of becoming an American citizen can claim 160 acres freehold, on condition of fixed residence for five years, Another mode is the system under which has originated the word “squatter” though the American squatter is a very different kind of person to the “squatter” of Australasia. He settles on one of the unsurveyed lands, and when the Government surveyor comes he has the pre-emptive right of purchasing the land at the upset price of 6s per acre. The waste lands in America are the property of the General Government and not of the particular state or territory in which they are situate, and this would have been the case in New Zealand had not ultra-centralists bought off ultra-provincial opposition by permitting this robbery of the northern portion of New Zealand for the benefit Of the southern portion to be accomplished. The treating the land fund as provincial revenue was a great mistake, and a manifest injustice to the Provinces and people of the North Island.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 31, 5 August 1867, Page 2
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