LAND SETTLEMENT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3037, 2 January 1892, Page 2

LAND SETTLEMENT.

The Marfcqn Mercury has the following :~ "The dimnclinittum of en many of our youths to take t" a country Ufa and country pursuits is a subject which crops up resuiirly every year when the hig schools hr-*ak up This ye.ar is nut an exception. HrO. L. Denniston, in distributing the prizes nt the Dune.din High School, remarked that every inducement should l>B given t> the native born youth to settle on the land, and add to the number of the producing portion of the population. P.ircn'H should endeavour in every way they can to innt.il into their boys a. love of country life;; thny should send then: when possible to upend their holidays there." This is all vary well, and the advice, from a public point uf view, is certainly sound ; but are our b->ys likely to follow it? Not exactly. When they do go into the country what do they rind! Youths, men, and women, too, wo/k*ing long hours, in rough work, for less wages than is obtained in any kind of city occupation, and h'n.Uly before departing they learn that it is these tillers of the anil who, in the ne-.u* future, are to pay the whole of t'ie l.ixalion required to carry on the government*, of the colony. Lind : no they don't want land ; a shop, a store, a g.>od billet—anything you like but land, and can anyone blairm thpm ?