The Land Agent

Te Aroha News, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5975, 8 September 1920, Page 2

The Land Agent

(Special to “News.”)

The speaker at the Pahiatua Far mere' Union meeting who said that he supposed that there was no man making more money than the land agent; the’and agent had no capital invested, except in a motor car and an office girl ; there was no doubt about it that the land agent was responsible for the sp -culation in land today ; may or may not have been correct iu bis first premise. He was hopelessly at sei in his concluding -reference. The land agent is not responsible for the speculation in land today. He is simply the effect to the canse. Farmers are baying and selling day by day. There is a great deal of unrest agisted by the speculative element; d< sire to extend opp )rtunities and the vision of far off hills looking green. These reasons and favourable financial conditions evolve the land. agent, who simply fills, a need in having a fund of information available and bringing buyer and seller together. If the land agent was non existent sales would still take place with probably less careful selection due to pauoity of information Proof that this is the correct view is afforded in the fact that whether from financial or other reasons land transactions are affected the land agent has his period of inactivity. He cannot put transactions through if there are no buyers or no sellers ; therefore it is not correct to lay the blame on his shoulders. The reason lies deeper. The land agent is brought into existence by prevailing conditions. He does not govern them.