CLOSER SETTLEMENT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143764, 12 April 1912, Page 3

CLOSER SETTLEMENT.

DEMANDED IN AUSTRALIA

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (Received April 12, 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 12.

Mr. Beehy, speaking at Wagga on the closer settlement question, said that whatever Government was in office would ho bound to apply every pressure to large landholders who occupied lands out of productive use in districts that would be served by the State railways. Opportunities for private subdivision at good prices would not continue ami men who were not wise, enough to see the current of public opinion would suffer. The Government’s purchases of blocks had pot touched the fringe of the closer settlement problem. They wanted 200,000, not 20,000 new settlers.