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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13398, 29 January 1907, Page 7

Sociologists are looking more and more toward decentralisation of population as a. remedy for the squolidity and misery found in great cities. It is admitted by everybody that tho life involving the sweat-shop and the slum is less healthy physically. morally, industrially, and politically that the old life on the farm. The effect upon the individual of pure air and cleanly surroundings can hardly In' estimated. A business of one's own, ,if it is small, does vastly more in tho development of character, the foundation of all good citizenship, than drudging along eternally subject to the will or perhaps tho whims of employers. Tic-re arc in France- 5,600,000 holdings of land, of which nearly 4 200,000 are owned by those who occupy them, the average area being 10-. 1 acres. In Croat Britain there are some 252.000 holdings of five to 60 acres in extent; yd the cultivated area of Great Britain i- 32', million acres, against 852 millions in France.

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