FARMERS AND LABOUR
Sir.—Mr. Ramsey asks if I approve of Labour forcing the leasehold yoke on the farmer. My answer is that Ido not know whether 01 not the leasehold (that is State leasehold) is any more of a " yoke" than the freehold system. Under the present freehold system thousands of returned soldiers are to-day paying extremely high prices for the land they saved from becoming German freehold". What a " yoke"' they will have to bear if prices fall. If the present system of freehold is going to lead to private leafing of land, then I say, let State lease come as soon as possible. I know of one man who borrowed part of £60 he paid down on some land nine years ago, vet by buying and selling he is now worth over £60,000. That is. under the present system, this one man has been able to fix a " yoke" of £60.000 on those who came after biro, and have to farm the land for a l-.ving. Mr. Ramsey closed with a qootation: allow me to do the same: "No one ever received a shilling without earning it, but what someone had earned that shilling and not received it," W. Walker.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17269, 19 September 1919, Page 4
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