LAND AND FAMILIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 177, 28 July 1928, Page 21

LAND AND FAMILIES.

j .1 In* ]"i-itivii in which "Xat ice Son'" i limia himself and liis family is an ecoi nmuic effect, the cause of which i? | true trade in laud. A man with a. small | farm and Jarcre family cannot compete I ni tiic market for more land with one j "1 a -mail family, therefore under free- | sale and speculation the hind continu- ; ally tends to pa-s into the family "■ | ° !| e preferably. They want the children J of the prolific- small farmer to work their land. and. of conr.-e. the cheap r they can <ret tln-m the better they 1 i\■ it. If the small farmer with the family is aide to acquire broad acre-. liow will Ijii estate look in Com pa lis, with his one-child neiphbonrV when tii.• division comes? The neighbour. other j things i«-in2 eipial. will be ill a. iinanj eial position to swallow ii piecemeal. I And so tli'' fret: sale c.ui-e l-oc- on from ! generation to jj'-neration. producing j the effect of Ueprivinjr larire families of j mcess t" the -oLirct- of tiieir food sup- ; plie-. .JOHN Ml'JSlKi.