The Pahiatua Herald. with which is incorporated THE PAHIATUA STAR. Published Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays MONDAY. JANUARY 29, 1894.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 104, 29 January 1894, Page 2

The Pahiatua Herald. with which is incorporated THE PAHIATUA STAR. Published Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays MONDAY. JANUARY 29, 1894.

; • >sii»En tBLE dissatisfaction is ex* . irith the prices fivd for Crown lands in this district, and many instances are quoted of the incongruity of the <• tig. s madt. The general complaint appears to b that instead of the price of lend being regulated by its accessibility or otherwise, and facilities for communication and disposing of stock and produce forming the basis of e.-.iupurHiion, these* very relevant con - - id* rations are religiously overlooked or disregarded, and the charges are fixed on an absolutely reverse scale, jwu.ivby lucky individuals who grab I ,; p and in the vicinity of population c ''ires are treated with an enviable con * ’t< ration and their burdens are : mad- as light as possible, while less ucky land seekers whose later arrival | compolls them to push further out , njto the bush and amongst the hills, ; ;n the trackless wilds of unbroken j country, u;'c laden with the load hat should have been their earlier | n ighboevs’. It rejoices ns to hear , : I familiar cry of “ settle the i p ,p!. on tlie land,” and then to con* i template— but with less joy and more ! lerision —the manner of the dumping i

‘ '* peopL in the bush. As tliu '* ">v...„;!iun si-eleft furthi i pleasures o. aIJI J trials behind and the ditfici*.. | of I: pionM rs increase, so, for 50... ! nn xpeiiiiablo cause known only to I the gifted beings who administrate ; our lands, does the price of land >ne i by gr< at bounds, until on the j wooded and comparatively worthless I heights of the Puketois the top figure J is reached. It almost seems as if the ; words of a settler friend to us wer. 'iterally true: “The further you go from a township and the higher the land the more you have to pay for it." Tber’is a tang: be grievance in ili j this which rightly agitates th mind of those men who have undertaken f< bring under subjection the dense forests c.wny out back. They roren |this ad ministration by contradiction, and deny the justice of being oaileti upon to pay more for their inferior land, far removed from the advantage of close settlement, than others who j are required to contribute for section well within a settled boundary. These : ar anachronisms which demand a r, midy. The whole question of Crown land values reqir 13. reonstro : ion and the pries fix-,] re .j adln imen;, it wiU have to come, 100, and

• w hen it doe? come the settlers of the back blocks will be given a more reasonable opportunity of making for ( i hem selves and their families homes where now tally the boom speculator i dares set his foot.