BRITISH LAND-OWNERS.
HOW THEY LOST POLITICAL POWER. BARON BLEDISLOE’S OPINION. London, Sept. 11. Baron Bledisloe, president of the agriculture section of the British Association, dealing with the proper position of the land-owner in relation to agriculture, said land-owners’ ignorance and incapacity would lead to the nationalisation of land. Many landowners in the last two generations have been mere rent receivers, possessing neither knowledge nor inclination to administer, still less to cultivate their estates. They had been organised. not as producers of wealth, but as defenders of property. They thus lost political power because they had no economic basis. Land-owners rendered great service as statesmen and local administrators, but, not wholly without justification, they had been stigmatised as ignorant, reactionary and despotic. Nevertheless during the period of their power and influence Britain attained an outstanding position. He advocated the elimination or superfluous middlemen as a means of further agricultural progress. —(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 232, 13 September 1922, Page 5
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152BRITISH LAND-OWNERS. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 232, 13 September 1922, Page 5
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