LAND AGENTS’ IDEALS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 88, 5 July 1927, Page 18

LAND AGENTS’ IDEALS

HIGHER BUSINESS STANDARD PASSING OF THE “DUD” (Special to THE SUE.) WANGANUI, To-day. Mr. H. J. Duigan gave an interesting address at the Rotary Club yesterday on the question of land agency and pointed out that the day of “duds” had gone. Now real estate men had to be fitted for their work. There were in New Zealand 1,200 licensed land agents and the supply was always equal to the demand. In Hamilton, during the land boom of 1920, there were as many as 120 land agents. Prior to 1912 the land agents were scattered and had few ideals, but with the passing of the Land Agents Act they began to take notice and form themselves into a body. This Act was found unworkable, however, and a new one came into existence in 1922. This was in force to-day. Later the New Zealand Real Estate Institution was formed, its aims being to achieve a higher status of business. Mr. N. Pulton, grader of dairy produce, said that the farm on which he spent his childhood had not yet passed out of the family, which was one of the best known in Pukekohe district. It had been purchased by his father, was passed on to the eldest brother, and was now in the possession of his brother’s son. “Land agents,” declared Mr. Fulton, “had not got much out of that farm.”