SETTLEMENT ON THE LAND.
;; "TO THE EDITOK. :/■ > " ~ "3 Sib,We hear a great deal of " settlement on the land " by the Minister of Lands and i JgQgjJ others who have-no practical knowledge of, its cultivation or the country's requirements.: > f As a farmer of 70 years 1 experience, who hag i •-j improved acres and miles of land, I nave no. f hesitation in leaving it on record that in my * opinion there could be no greater mistake than locking up the land at a low rental m: •• •«; too close settlement in a new and unimproved country, in the hands of men without tlia mean* or the knowledge to improve it by:r|s§g modern appliances. These men caunot meet ' and compete in the markets of the world v;|® .while every means is taken to drive capital ous , of the country by Utopian schemes. There a great cry about cheap money, which is good if the real cause of its cheapness was not that•.. capitalists are afraid to invest it in improving. the land.-I am, etc., . \ _ T.M. ■- '• ——— : ''
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10595, 9 November 1897, Page 3
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174SETTLEMENT ON THE LAND. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10595, 9 November 1897, Page 3
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