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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19616, 21 October 1925, Page 8

LAXD SETTLKMFVT IN CEXTKAL OTAGO. TO THE EDITOR. S IItj —\ow that the election is drawing roar I would like to express the opinion thnt there is too much land aggregation proirt? on. For instance, a runholder sells out at Tarros. A part of the ran is secured by one person who has more land than he can look after, while thousands of nflople are looking: for land on which to settle in order to make a comfortable liviner. Another person, whose father is a squatter, and his son fret the balance of the run. Was the irrigation schemo. which has cost thousands of pounds, undertaken for the benefit of the few at Tarras or in the interest of closer settlement? "We need closer settlement. The Government is bringing immigrants from the Old Country, but what are thev going to do? In this srosll district we have tmemoloyed, and if it were not for the storekeepers in Cromwell some of them would etnrve. The Feform Government is for ihe land owners, and a food many members hold a good slice of the country. Wo cannot, all be sqnatters. and I gay that we want members to represent ia a who are prepared to support the cutting i'l> of the land for the people to settle on. For instnnce, why should not Olendhu and Cattle Flat be cut up? Families could casilv be settled on them and make a "rood living. There is the Mount Burke Station also, which his exchanged hands for £21.000. Why should that not be cut up?—l am-, etc., A Form Cockatoo. Cromwell. Octobox 13.