Sacrificing the Land.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2936, 28 June 1888, Page 3

Sacrificing the Land.

A Wairarapa paper bus recently drawn attention to the scaudalous manner in which a portion of the pubJjc estate was needy sacrificed, when ■ffct a sale in the Mangatainoka block, sections with a real market value of £SO were sold for £5 each. This is a very serious matter. Private owners of property, and companies like the Wellington-Manawatu Company find it to their interests when they have land \o dispose of to let the fact be widely Known by means of advertisements of jrirnl w'vtlw. 'flit Gyvorumont

however, through the Was to Land Board, sells iia land in a hole and coiner mannor which excites no competition or public interest. The fact that it has land for sale only becomes known to ut select mid interested few, who accordingly buy at their own price. J udicioits publicity given to all Government land sales would more {than repay its cost in the increased piiws which would certainly be realised for tha land sold, It is most nnwiso economy, a thoroughly penny-wise-and pound-foolish system, which permits the public estate to be sacrificed, as was recently the rase apparently at the llungtttninoka sub.—Evening Post.