LAND AGGREGATION
SIR JOSEPH WARD'S CRITICISM,
The Leader of the Liberal Party ridiculed jn the Town Hall last night the suggestion that the Reform Party was really anxious to prevent land aggregation, and contrasted their attitude with that of the Liberal Party. Prom 1889----1910, under the Liberal Party's administration, he said, the number of estates from 20,000 acres to 30,000 acres fell from 50 to 26; 30.000 to 40,000 acres fell from 26 to 5; 40,000 to 50,000 fell from 13 to 6; 50,000 to 100,000 acres fell from 15 to 11. From 1909 to 1918, seven years of which were under the Reform administration, estates of 1000 to 5000 acres had increased from 4090 to 5623; 5000 to 10,000 acres increased from 458 to 565; 10,000 to 20,000 acres increased from 235 to 295; 20,000 to 50,000 acres increased from 151 to 185. As his friend the Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald had said, the policy of the Reform Party seemed to be aggregation, more aggregation, and still more aggregation. The remedy, Sir Joseph added, was the imposition of an effectual graduated tax, and to refuse to transfer land from a small farmer to' a large landowner if the latter had a sufficiency of land already. (Applause.)
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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 144, 16 December 1919, Page 9
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209LAND AGGREGATION Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 144, 16 December 1919, Page 9
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