SECOND EDITION Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874] FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1894. THE REAL NEED.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4807, 24 August 1894, Page 2

SECOND EDITION Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874] FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1894. THE REAL NEED.

Scoiiks of men in this district have taken up land under the new dispensation of the present Ministry, and left their holdings, broken hearted, their little means exhausted and their debts increased and multi* plied, Tberoare scores of men too now on laud in this district who must surrender their holdings as their resources are becoming exhausted, and they are broken down with debts and difficulties. There are scoros of men also in this (liswho bavo taken up land but who have not the means to occupy it, and who are impoverished by the dues they have to pay with respect to it, and this is the Land Settlement of which the Liberals boast. We have the three classes; (1) the men who have come off their laud'ruined; (2) the men who havo to leave their hud ruined) (3) the men who cannot get on their land and who aro being ruined by tho payments they liavo contracted to make, These three classes form a largo percentage of our land settlers, and to such men of what use (bo/ "Landfor Settlement" Bill. There is very l little local demand for land, and probably the lands which will be purchased by the Government and let will bo to a large extent tenanted by outsiders, who come to' the Colony under the mistaken impression that a man without means can become a successful farmer. There is a light' method of settlement as well as a wrong one, and wo could give plenty of instances of successful settlement as well as examples of failures. The misfortune is that the present Government absolutely encourage and hold out a premium for unsuccessful settlement and induce men who have not the slightest chance of holding land to take it up. Everybody knows. how successful settlement is effected, There is for instance a man in Masterton who took up a bush section a few year's ago, He did not go and reside upon it, but every penny ho could save out of his wages for sonjje sgven or eight years has been expended m clearing, fencing, and stocking ;jt, and now bo is about to toko his family 011 to it with the absolute certainty o,f lijs Jand being able to support bjm andtliem, A man who far seven .or eight yeaps flayes.a considerable proportion of his wages can go on land and live off it, tnit 'a man who has. no savings; anej no resources simply ! goeaj on land to, starve and, fail. What I men want' is employment,'not' land. Any man who has regular employment, can, if lie be thrifty, get laud when lie is ready for' it,

either with or without the help of the Government. This new " Land forSettlemerits "Bill will give no relief to the men who are really in want, it will not help the unemployed! one. iota, The real need is: " work and wages," and this "work arid! wages" has been filched from the men of New Zealand by the mistaken policy of the Government, which has partially annihilated local industries throughout New Zealand. An exodus from the colony is setting in, and though times are.bad in other colonies, the working man is again leaving our shores.