LAND ON DEFERRED PAYMENTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1744, 24 July 1884, Page 2

LAND ON DEFERRED PAYMENTS.

From the New Zealand Mail 1872. ....As,,,very sbpi-tly : the.. Provincial. Government of Wellington will through open a large block of land under the system of deferred payment, the following letter addtessed to the " Lyfctleton Times" by the Hon, Secretary of the " Canterbury Workingmen's Mutual Protection Society," may -prove interesting-: . ""

Sir,—The question of the disposal of the lands of this province on the deferred payment system is evidently becoming the vital importance in connection with its future walfare.

In accordance with the expressed •wish of tho majority of the members .'representing the various constituencies of the colony in the General Assembly -we are about to have a revival of immigration from Europe. From the various events which are taking place around us in connection with tlm immigration question it does not require any very large amount of penetration to forsee that in the interests of this province the disposal of its public lands on more liberal terms | that the present land regulations' |jpermit of. are imperatively demanded, not only in the interests of all the population, but also ir. order to restrain those immigrants which we may oxpect to receive into this province under the Public Works and Immigration Policy to which the colony is now committed. In your issue of the 2nd January : there .appears an extract taken from thVSouthland "Times" of December 29 bearing on .the immigration question, which explains, .the facilities which the Government is' willing to offer to settlers who are desirous, to assist their friends to join them' from Europe. ■lt is very evident that if we in this province refrain, from offering to immigrants which may arrive,; those facile ties which are to be obtained in some of the neighboring provinces we shall not be able to refrain them, There is eleu- evidence at the present moment of thojnecessity which exists for offering every facility which we can offer in order that immigrants after arrival may be able to establish homes for. themselves. If we look around us at the present moment in any district in this province we may see scores and hundreds of our iellow-colonists camped like gypsies, in tents, without homes, and in nmny cases without. food, waiting for the harvest to commence in order that they may obtain remunerative employment, who in all likelihood would be/better employed in improving their homes if more liberal regulations such as those which land on deferred payments are; calculated to afford.