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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3073, 8 May 1917, Page 7

The _ Lieutenant-Governor of Mani■toba, in a recent address (writes trie London correspondent of an exchange) urged the necessity for greater production in the prairies, and advocated the New Zealand system of leasing Government lands, which gives tho Gov-, eminent power to control the conditions of residence and of cultivation. In support of'his argument he quoted future's to bliow that less than one-third of the arable land in tho three prairie provinces which has been granted in freehold by the Canadian Government is under oultivatipn. Land companies and individuals who are tying up land for speculative purposes' are likely to he forced, under the pressure of increased taxation) to onltivnte ■'or else sell.