LAND SETTLEMENT.
Sir,—l notice the present Government is out to spend money, or make the fortunate settler spend it. An cstals that has kept one or two families is to be asked to keep 17, at interest on £55 per acre, besides costs of roads, buildings, fences sheds, which will make it easy £65 per acre. Tho 20.000 acres of Taup> land may bo all right, but what is land without a railway ? Taupo land will Want feeding and motor lorries will not do it; they won't carry lime 100 miles in". The Government has plenty of land: why. pay big prices for the squatters estates':' i challenge any Ministers of the Crown to take a section of this estate and mako it pay more than interest. Wniuku. J- W. Sycamore.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20230, 15 April 1929, Page 12
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131LAND SETTLEMENT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20230, 15 April 1929, Page 12
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