The Settlement of Bush Lands.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 183, 18 December 1886, Page 7

The Settlement of Bush Lands.

L*pos the question of the wisdom or otherwise of insisting upon personal residence ob the sections of forest land taken up on the deferred payment aystem, the Taranaki Herald has the following article w iih which we very much agree :— "lf it had not been for the beneficial operation of the deferred payment system of di^po^iny of om bu*h landb the successful locution of settleis on such would have been confined w ithin much narrower limits. The system under the admimstiationoftheLandßoaidh ia inybten a gi eat success it is a pity that the "Land Department; at Wellington will li-k its future succe?^ by insisting on a departure from the settled policy of the Board by which personal residence on bu&h lands il not made a condition of the put chase. Bu-h land as a rule is not tit for humanity to live' on until the lapse of some yeats. It is necessary that clearings should be made, the land gras-ed, roads foimed, and thu gradual udvanee of settlement opened up from the older di^tiiets. 1 hen families can occupy such land with a chance of making permanent home* on it and rhe possibility of the children bcinj; within a practicable distance fiotn a school The fact that the great bulk of the selectors do oc 'upy the land before the end ot four ycaia shows that no injudicious coescion i« needed, and the minority who do not actually occupy the land make woik fm tho»e who do occupy, a-, improvements m i-t he made in the terms of the sale. Tl<<_-e pei-onj who do nor occupy aie simply mil,] -q future ptovUinu for them«tKe-« or tin lr children, a piactical kind of thuil that the Governmenr ou^ht to fiicomat: ' The (Jovt'imnerit. hui\oer. ray to ttit, i-»oa r d, • For the futuie le-ic'ince mutt be u -i-ted on, Le.v.u-e it i» unfair to the perpetual ka-eholders to be com pell od to le-ide while the d'feired pa\ment toife are not.' This reasoning is \ery JKcrliar. The same argunu-ut should apply to the c i-h purchaser, and it miffiit be -aid that it is \ery unfair to thedefencd pa\ meJit Nelecior to be compelled to mako impiovemeuts. while the ca-h purcha^ei is allowed to do what he like^. Th<*ie is, howe\er, no unfairne.-s in any ca^e It may be impolitic, but it h sunpiy afloidiriij so many ways of obtaining land on ea*-y teims, the selector choo-mg that which suit'- him be.-t. The obvious remedy ib to alter the terms of the leading system to that of the deferred payment, and all'iw the Board with the concurrence of tho Government to dispense with personal residence on bu.>h land held under lea'-e. It ig, however, very unwise, because residence cannot be dispensed with on leased land beyond two years. To fetter the deferred payment land with the same reduction, when it has been proved in this district to have been po very successful In inducing settlers to take up, impiove, and ultimately live on the land, 14 very unwiee. We hope the Government will refrain from coercing the Board in this matter, but will allow men who have had a large experience in the actual work of settlement to administer the lantfs in the direction that that experience teaches them. This will be found tho beat for the interest of the settlers, the district, and the Colony."

Canadian Cheese. — The Toronto • 'Globe " eaye that Canadian cheese is constantly riemg in the estimation of the Biitish con. sumer. The total amount imported to JJritain in September was 21,554 cwt. les c than m the same month of 1883 ; but despite the smaller demand for foreign cheese in general, the imports of Canadian cheese have steadily increased. In the first nine months of 1882, the cheese imports from Canada were 233,509 cwt. ; in the same £onJoso n JoS ln 1883 ' 324 ' 418 cwt - J an <* in 1884. J82,485cwt. This enormous increase has apparently been in part at the expense of the American factories, for the imports of American cheese for the correspondingPei 7°-?ol W «f re 791 » 2 °5 cwt ; 805,731 cwt., »nd 785 034 cwt. The imports this year norn all other countries were 265,182 cwt Canada, therefore, has contributed to the British market nearly one half as much as Ihe United States, and nearly one-half more man all other countries combined. Drying-off Cows If i «,„„ r. X hln% effeCt throw the »Mk bSk' into pna other complications. Giv 0 dry food Bon^^ 1611^ ?l b u ra , n ' and milk hi S F g A\rtt b h^ hercaivin «