LAND RILL.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12933, 12 October 1907, Page 10

LAND RILL.

to r«« editor or "raz fuss." ] Sir, —The writer cent a letter of pub. l lie interest to an Auckland journal \ for publication, but that paper being i a Government organ, and the subject \ matter being damaging to the so-called Liberal Government, the letter was ' eliminated to the paste-paper basket 3 without a. word of comment. Kindly, ! therefore, grant mc spaoo in the col- ' nmns of your raluablo paper to renti- I late the matter. ' Ist: The Minister of Lands, a short ' time since. expressed himself f surprised at the action of the '* Parliamentary Committee appoint- « »d to consider the Land Bill, in refus- J ng to give effect to the provision J vhereby people living in the town* * md wishing to take up land in the * ;ountrr could do so without being a ■ompelled to reside on it. The writer J rould nsk if any just man irould have J he audacity to. mnko euclr a proposal *: n the interest of the townsman, while J he farmer is compelled to reside on * lie holding in the country whether he fishes to live in town or not? Yet we iear so much about the Liberal Gor ernment having the farming cotnmuntv at heart. 2nd: The Ministermnkeecertain proKwnls in the Land Bill, by -which he liinks tlie bnllot erstem will be imnroved. Why should a ballot system xist at all? What could be simpler >r fnirer thnn the total abolition of n( his State gamble, and the substitution n its etea<l of the first como the first ervod? Under the ballot ej-stom ai ieople of limitefl means run about the tl onntry spending their money, only to -M nd in the finish that they are thrown »' lit by ballot. Under the system of tc first como first, served " no o'no would ea <p in j ined. Everrono would have the?' ame chance. "The early bird gets it he early worm."—Yours, etc.. JUSTICE. Auckland, October sth.