Why were there eo few applicants for the Elderslie No. 2 sections? asks the Dunedin "Star/’ and answers: Simply and solely because the estate was bought by the Government at much too high a price, a price which made it impossible to offer reasonable tempting terms to wishful applicants. The system of valuation plus P er cent, is one which has outlived whatever small usefulness it ever had, and it should go the way of other discredited devices. It is actually said that the rents asked for sections on this latest settlement average_ 100 per cent, higher than on the adjoining land. This sort of thing is a mere burlesque of Sir John McKenzie’s doctrine of close settlement. The truth is that auiteapart from the tenure issue many mischievous and even scandalous conditions call for the prompt attention of Government and Parliament.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8103, 4 May 1912, Page 5
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