POPULATION V. FERRETS

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1721, 27 June 1884, Page 2

POPULATION V. FERRETS

i To,the Editor

Sir,-" Snap " in his efmsiouof yesterday quotes Sir Julius Yogol, ■ That it is humbug to talk about land nationa isation while wo have millions of acres waitjug for occupiers,' That's just tk rub:'it , 'is'i)bcauac we havo millions of acres that: we should take care that everybody has an ohance to get some, and it is only by laud nationalisation we cau effect this most desirable object, not by selling tracts of country 30 miles long to a'single individM for a raaro.song, who has ■• only got to tnni out a lot of sheep, on the, ground' and bide his time till increase of population makes it worth ten times what he, gave for it. I do not wish to enter into a controversy witt' Snap' on this question, as it would occupy too. much of your spaQe,:;' but I will, with TOur permission, just quote a few statistics, for Snap's satisfaction, showing the, difference between land held! by a, few owners and that occupied by people for a livelihood. 1 In England at the present time there ,is. more land lying idle in sporting grounds,, gaaereserves, and landlord's'parks than the whole kingdomof Belgium, Akk sifp■ports in happiness ini prosperity 6 millions ofpeopk,' (Think of that Snap. No thirty

miles of country to a > individual : there 1 and' no need ■of ferrets to keep dovt a tlierabbits.). ; v'v'."':"«.\',>';?'-','. : ■.■:" ■';•;' Ah income of onqliuudred and "five' millions n yefir. ig: tecoived by'■ 8142 landlords (tho English Isqiiattor'j'aß rent on forty-five millions "five hundred"thousand: acres of land,' This; m a country where people starve for ■want of the bare necessities of life, because some eight thousand people hold what would proVido food for millions.i Cut Now Zealand-'"up. into, thirty milo blocks, and then, lot us seo how i long it vill.be before your,'millions pf/aorcs. Waiting for occupiers'.is snapped up by the nionied few.'. It will be'a long waiting for occupiors then—till the; Day of Judgment, unless the sharks getlheir price for it. Tho abovo quotations ore from an interesting little ;Work on ; ' Land Nationalisation,' by Henry George, and I should \ advise "Snap" to procure a copy and peruse it carefully. It would perhaps; open h'is eyes to some of the curses of land monopoly. •' . Yours, etc, Smr.

To the Editor, Sin,—As there is at times frequently now much being said and written on the raueh vexed rabbit question all through tho distiiet, I would beg to call the,attention of those who aro oxercisiug authority in the matter to the fact that there are persons in Masterton who are'.ljre'eding them on their promises, and at .times 1 have.found them in my garden. I live mado'enquirios to whatl believed the'.proper'qiny.lHMyand.l Hyo, been told that the Rabbit Act law does noYiipply to.the Borough. Kcally, sir, this does ujoin strange, as it may be clear, to all that rabbits bred voider confinement .will, when getting' aniboifly, ; got ; a'way 'on the land and increase;-I cannot think but that 'tho Act seems"Veiy'imporfect, and should visit persons whether in the' 1 borough or country bfeeding'them, with aheavy.ponalty, ps I feel oortain that rabbits thus bred if turned out intentionally or got out by. accidont, on tlie land, they willjiuorcaso in numbers and [addifurthor trouble and confusion to tlUt'wHsh tho people ra now suffering. '/':■'{!' :■ .. . .'iram,"6to., ,'• ' '' '" ASeitlek. Masterton, 25th Juno, 1881.