CROWN TENANTS.
Sir,— was very pleased to see a paragraph in the Herald of January 11 reporting a discussion by the Farmers* Union regarding the failure of Crown tenants to observe the residential conditions. Over two years ago there were six sections. balloted on this road where I live in Hauraki Plains. After all this time there are only three settlers residing on their sections.' It is a great drawback in every way -that these places are not occupied, and,why the Government cannot insist on these speculators either residing on or forfeiting their sections, and giving them to returned soldiers or anyone who will reside on them is a puzzle. I know many men who have balloted for years and been unsuccessful, who would have been, only too pleased to come and live on them and would have made good settlers. I believe it is the same all oyer the Plains, and these speculators i.re only waiting till the present hard-working settlers improve the land and district, then they will sell and get the same profit 3s those who have lived here for years and put up with the isolation and bad roads. . Faibplay.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16752, 19 January 1918, Page 8
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