The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1888. Changing Hands.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2992, 1 September 1888, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1888. Changing Hands.

At last Thursday's meeting of the Wellington Laud Board, a whole sheaf of applications for the. transfer of interest in sections in tho Forty Mile Bush from tho original selectors to settlers who loubtless purpose to become lonafuk occupiers of the land were determined, That a considerable number of applications of this character came before a single meeting is significant of a fact that lias often been urged against Mr, Ballanco's Special Settlement scheme viz. that a largo ppr centago of members of associations were selectors and not settlers, they were either men who joined with, an honest intention of working their sections but found they woro not in a position to do so, or speculators who anticipated 'being able fo sell out their interests at a profit, The selling out time is apparently arriving, and a detriment of the small army of selectors lias, already transferred, whether at ft profit oral a loss we know not, their right .and title to their estates, It is of course satisfactory to know that bush allotments #re now passing into the hands of men who will fell, dear, fence, and grass theni, Jt was not at all a desirable state,of aflfe-irsthat, large tracts of excellent laud should be parcelled out between ABC and,'-D, and rbmaju practically unoccupied and . uniropjfovpd, • Every cation made .at the last Meeting of the locaj Land Board •means a family or ft head of a futurelmily going on to uutejjanted andjijioocTtipiefl land with tho intension'', bfjiniiking a permanent trust theso men will succeed, though in the ordinary course of there must necessarily; be tage of failures. Somewill find|]ioir little capital exhausted before tfieir properties return an income,!|ome wilffail (/(tlieir expectation of earning wages in their spare time, "fioitfe will sueoumb to si%e|S, possibly to extravagance aha' insinV perance, but with all theso drawbacks a goodly number will hold their own and increase and : multiply, and where here and there a man falls in the struggle for a Hying from the land, some other man wjll i#rae to the front in his room, and make his land yield {is quota towards the produce of the colony, lir (i few years tin\e the tens 'of thousands pf acre? now being cleared and. settled will be highly productive, This country is eminently adapted for fattening stock and for supplying dairy produce, and before another decade" passes oyer our heads, jaaiey fa.ctorieg mallpajts. of tbe.bush district #lll probably b,e exporting, to':'tho London markflt huhdred'oftonsiof butter and olieese; Laiid 'is' changing anlwiU. change hands time as)tliebright

thejpeople »ho possess tho means and the knowledge to;make every] aoie yield its full lfltiun. With 00**1 operation, and with the development of the frozen meat industry there is a grand fntuie foi tho" small holders of the bush dfetucts who become genuine settleis on the land.