LANDS FOR SETTLEMENT.
Sir,—The Ward Government has proclaimed that within the first threo months' of 1911 they will open up jfo'r settlement 1,870,696 acres. Tho great demand for land for settlement comes from the north, but of this nearly two million acres only 55,T92 are to bo offered for sale in tho north and' 1,812,101 in the south, 50 tho policy of. locking up the-North Island lands is to uo continued. It is ■ impossible to imagine that'.this has' been done in .the interests 'of', tho Dominion. My assertion: is that it'has been done in tho hope, and with the in-' tontion, that with such an immensely larger area of land to select from, anil with the heavy differential-rates of. 45." lid. per ton of goods carried and 5.1 d. per passenger fare, they may Ijo . able to divert the stream of-land.,'settlers from the'north to tho south, and if allowed to continue they will succeed. The north never has, and never will, object to anything that is fair and reasonable, but this is neither.—l am,.etc., SAMUEL VAILE; Auckland, January 12, V -
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1026, 16 January 1911, Page 6
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180LANDS FOR SETTLEMENT. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1026, 16 January 1911, Page 6
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