The Big Estates
ROBINSON: Wasn’t another important experiment in the ’nineties the splitting up of big estates? I’ve heard my father talk of those days. I suppose this had a bearing on working conditions? JONES: Most certainly. It gave wage-earners an opportunity to become farmers on their own account. It’s extraordinary that so much land in the ’nineties was tied up by speculators, companies and runholders. A million acres, according to Reeves, were held by fifty absentee landlords; 585 persons owned 10 million acres, It is little wonder that, seeing there was little good land left for people who wanted to become farmers, there should be agitation against this locking up of the country. ROBINSON: Yet, at the time the land tax, and later the compulsory purchase clauses in the Lands for Settlement Act, were regarded as revolutionary. JONES: Yes. It was just as well that the first purchase-that of the Cheviot Estate-was so successful. The purchase of other large estates followed
rapidly.-
("Background of New Zealand: Working
Conditions," prepared by
Martin
Nestor
2YA Octo-
ber 28).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 73, 15 November 1940, Page 5
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177The Big Estates New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 73, 15 November 1940, Page 5
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