ABSENTEEISM AND SETTLEMENT
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —In your last issue I see the Minister of Lands is not favourable to village settlement, because it is useless placing men on land in a district where there is no one to employ them. His colleague, the Hon. G. Fisher, complains of theory of absentee ownership. Here, Sir, is the very thing, and whose fault is it that this absenteeism should exist, and that there should be no one to employ these settlers? Why the very men who are complaining—the Government of the country—are to blame. Take the Te Akatea block for example, belonging to the Waikato Goal Company, of thousands of acres, all lit for cultivation. If that was all, as it should be, occupied with farmers of the right sort, the village settlers adjoining would not want Gsvernment employment for their spare time. Hoping the time is not far distant when the curse of absenteeism will bo a thing of the past.—l am, etc., T. B. Hill. Mercer, loth December, 188 S. P.S. —I am glad to see on my return that the road near Mere Mere is being put in order.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2565, 18 December 1888, Page 2
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192ABSENTEEISM AND SETTLEMENT Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2565, 18 December 1888, Page 2
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