GOVERNMENT LAND POLICY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 9 April 1908, Page 5

GOVERNMENT LAND POLICY

m< INTERVIEW WITH MR McNAB. fPEESS ASSOCIATION.] ASHBURTON, April ,9. In an interview. here, the- Minister fox Lands said tier© -was a. great deniand for the 35 years' renewable lease, .and he' was confident the increase of the graduated land tax encouraged snß-divi-sion, owners recognising that sub-divi-sion of their properties was a thing that could* not be indefinitely delayed. It was only the phenonuetnal profit from stock-raising of late yeans that enabled them to bold on. He believed that fox the moxt few years the land' market would be easier, and' allow the Government buying for cash and selling on easier temms. he said : "Settlement ot the land along the lines upon which we are going appears, to be the best method which has been suggested' lor the distribution of wealth among the people, so that ,we, .contend, that^-our 'policy in regard "to <6he distribution of -wealth is wrapped, up in our. land policy, and any solution of one is equally the solution of the other. That is, settling of $he country along our Knee means the advancement of md'u ci try .in. the ,6owhb; ? '