LAND MONOPOLY.
To the Editor. Sir,-It has been urged at recent public meetings, as a plea for tbo greater part of the land of New Zealand being occupied by a few individuals, that it would not pay in small blocks. This is a fallacy. It was one of the proposals in England lately to cut up the land of .the company they contemplated forming into four, eight, and twelve acre farms. Now, I know that there are districts even in England where farms of those sizes could not be made to pay, notably, some parts of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Wilts'. The wheat grown in Norfolk is the cheapest and the poorest in the London markot; and everybody knows that there are tracts of country in New Zealand of such a nature that a 100 acres could not beheld profitably. But this is no argument whatever in favor of laud monopoly. Something stronger than this must bo advanced if it be desired to prop up a system and a causo that men now havo scarcely a leg to stand upon, I am, etc., AflEI.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1738, 17 July 1884, Page 2
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183LAND MONOPOLY. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1738, 17 July 1884, Page 2
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