Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1895. THE LAND BALLOT SYSTEM.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5166, 26 October 1895, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1895. THE LAND BALLOT SYSTEM.

Sevbbai, years ago, a .well-known pressman gave the following advico to applicants (or sections under our Liberal laud system" But to get a plum I would say, don't rely on my tips; merely select from tlieui what you fancy, nml then go and see it yourself; and if you like it, go in .lemons, Ilavo all' your friends in; get all the wharf hands, lettersorters and clerks you can; have an agent to raise dummies in a clothing factory, where you can easily muster 100 girls who will sign a bit of blue paper. Get your dummies in Auckland oi Dunedin if you can. They will know nothing of tho land, and will transfer it to you without reluctance. And having got your section, join mo in asserting that no Government could go a more direct way to demoralise it nation, than by converting the sturdy yeoman into ut crafty speculator, tho Crown Lauds Office into a frowsy antipodean Monte Carlo." It is said that a block in another part of this Colony, recently put into the market was a striking illustration of the method abovo indicated. No deposit was required, and every hopeless " broker " went iu, and dozens of people applied who, if tlioy had been allotted sections, would have had to sell them again in the room, as they would not have had a cent wherewith to pay tho first halfyear's rent, which was demanded the instant an'applicant drew a section, Selling a section in the room is said to have been an easy matter. The man with money usually approached tho luojcy drawer, and the question of price was speedily arranged, The lucky drawer signs a number, of blank forms, and indue course of time transfers his section to tho man with money, This is said to be the intelligent land system of our present intelligent rulers,