LAND VALUES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 22 June 1912, Page 5

LAND VALUES

(To t.'je Editor.)

Sir, —In availing myself of the opportunity you offered me to reply to one particular point in Mr Powdrell's letter of the 17th, I desire to refer to some important verbal errors due to myself or Mr Powdvell, or the printer. (1) In Mr Powdrell's letter these words occur: "Mr Smith says any average family could save over £300 per annum without milking:." In my letter of June 10 I wrote, with Mr Powdrell's own words as my text, that the family were supposed to be milking on shares, their portion being £500 out of an alleged £1.200. and of the £-500 they laid aside £300 for a rainy day. (2) In my own letter of the 10th, as printed, were the^e words: "Everyone who knows the (my', farm will say it is above the average of beach land," whereas the lastphrase should have been "about the aver-; agre of coast lands," (3) At the close of my letter, u% printed were the words:

"TJien if Mr Powdrell is to drive every penny out of those milking families to oooni tradesmen in the towns"; whereas I had wntiten: "If every penny is taken from those milking families to boom land, where are the tradesmen in tne towns going to get a living?" As to the difference between the price or the land sold of my own and the price 1 consider to be a fair average fi"? r m Jaianaki lands, I still hold that £40 per acre is a fair and safe value tor these lands.

an m i JAMES SMITH, JJie Meadows, Otakeho.

[In the last sentence of the eighth paragraph of a letter written by° Mr £» 3l 6 W\ nd Published in this journal on the 1/th instant, the writer raised an entirely new and personal issue. In a footnote dosing the correspondence as a pS'tT Stat, ed that ftfr Smith was entitled to reply on that issue, but on whi t * T Glt °f l ,this °PPort«nity, and l,i\ h, aVT allowed him t0 Rectify ceitam verba errors, we have othered fn CM&ped Vn^, the new issue «*»" ed m Mr Powdrell's 1,-st letter. To have given further latitude would have been contrary to the settled practice of jourmms' / ? %T holf coirespondence is nou closed absolutely.—Ed.j