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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4020, 25 January 1892, Page 2

While Mr Coleman Phillips is to the fore there will always lie something new under the sun. In literary undertakings ho is wonderfully prolific, and his last pamphlet entitled " Gavelkind" is before us, In looking backward or forward he can give points to Bollaray, and in dealing with the land estate ot the universe he beats Henry George and Wallace hands down. Gavelkind is a land tenure which existed a thousand years ago, which Mr Coleman Phillips would apply—with modifications—for a thousand years to come. Our owu opinion is that some sensible colonist should be licensed to shoot every exponent of a novel land tenure. The Colony throve so well under the simple and intelligent systems which marked its Provincial era, that a recurrence to tbem is about the only practical remedy for the foolish ideas' of the present day. The men with land tenure fads are ruining the country, and we would be thankful for any likely suggestion for their extermination,