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Bruce Herald, Volume LV, Issue 66, 28 August 1919, Page 3

The warship New Zealand, with Ad L mura-l Jellicoe- aboard, -arrived in Wellington- on Wednesday. His /welcome ■was, marked !by great enthusiasm..

We saw iiw an English paper the other, day a 'bokl heading: that '' England was 1 changing Wands. »* The first shock was i that the wealthy foreigner was ousting the hereditary landowner, to an extent that justified the comment, ib-ut it was j not so. England is changing hands in the sense) - that big landed proprietors' are cutting up" and' -disposing'.o® their-: holdings to small tenant, farmers and , domo-biiisedi' soldiers. -.lt was estimated tliat" £20,000,000 ' worth of -rural land had so .'been disposed' of during the 12 months. Thei cause largely is the lesson taught by the war in that land settlement is essential to national progress, and-, secondly, to the taxation, which makes tUie holding, of large- -unproductive areas an unpayable, proposition.' Truly, out of evil im a sense l convex good. TheOld Land; but for the war may have happened, casually along whilst, many of the'best types of its people, owing to land hunger, looked to other climes for a littlei -bit. of. earth to call their own, and tho.un'fortunate -part was that a 'big* proportion of that emigration did uot. ftnd! its way to British dominions. The Unitedj stales aud the Argentilie have drawn ! big supplies of. the stoute-st Mood in Britain, and the result: of- the -fact -that " Englaiwl is changing hands' {■. is. a 'happy atgurv that this filtration to foreign par.tg will ' ' ■ ■ .► -I -L