LAND SETTLEMENT.
Tht Purchasing Olauie.
Tne moeting of setllera at Eketahuna tbe other day was ut meeting of settlers, not land sharks, speculators, millionaires, or dummies. They asked, in connection with a settlement they have in view, for the addition of a purchasing clause to the regulations, It is useless to answer that the purchasing clause will encourage speculation. They do not want to speculate. They want to break in the land and make it productive by living on it and helping each other. It may oo 'frC™ the Ministerial point of view) bad taste on their part to prefer a chance of freehold \o anything else, but the business of the Government is to settle the country, not to discuss matters of taste Have they not enough knowledge of human nature to show them the "bona fides" of these men 1 And if they want to leave the lands by«and«bye, why not, so lorg aa they leave others who toil and spin in tiiti: p!?C e ' Moreover, after the narrow escape of a certain gentltfm'an frojn' Dry River, wj?o shall benameteßß here, there will not be anything like a rush of dummies on tbe land for some Httje tjnie at least. — Times.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3953, 2 November 1891, Page 2
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203LAND SETTLEMENT. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3953, 2 November 1891, Page 2
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