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Observer, Volume XXVII, Issue 42, 6 July 1907, Page 3

Although there remains an Opposition in name, in practice there is only a small coterie of dissatisfied landowners who affect to carry the Farmers' Union in their vest pockets and who are about to reform the world by means of a new paper, to be published in Wellington, devoted to the task of hindering land law reform. — Napier "Telegraph."

Taking the latest Ministerial proposal to mean that a heavy graduated tax is to be brought in at once, it would appear that the persons affected by it are to be screwed up before they have an opportunity to unload, instead of having the ten years' warning given under the former proposal. We doubt if Parliament will pass such a connscatory measure, .while we are tolerably certain that if this Parliament made it law the next Assembly would re- ' peal it. — Garterton " News ."