LAND FOR THE LANDLESS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 268, 4 April 1913, Page 3

LAND FOR THE LANDLESS.

(To the Editor;) Sir, —lour leader on the html i> moving in the. right direction, though I am more concerned in supplying- the man to the manless land than in supplying the land tor the landless. If we had any security that the land! ins would stick to the land, and work it when lie grit it, it would he another tiling, hut we have not. The nrin who wants land is in too many cases a speculator perhaps in disguise. I just want to add this to your proposal to "strictly limit the area that tan be legally held by one individual." Let there lie some scheme devised (and it can be done), bv which the increment in the value of the land not given by improvements placed thereon bv the occupier sliould belong to the State. If this were done, then the question of freehold v. leasehold might be dropped. The freehold plea is "can't be disturbed," or fixilv of tenure, and this would not l)i! affected by any scheme by which the public retained the public-made increment. The freehold plea, as above, is merely for the platform and the 'Press. The real reason is mostly speculative.— I am, etc,