PRESENTATION TO MR MARCHANT.
WELLINGTON, May 16. Mr Merchant, Under-Secretary for Lands and Surveyor General, who is retiring from the pal lie tervice on a pension, was, to-day, presented by the Acting-Premier, at a ing at Bellamy's, with a cheque for a substantial amount from officers in fbe Lands Oej artment all over the colony. The Minister for Lauds, in the course of a speech, said that the Rooming of land had proved very injurious during the last few years. Wages had gnne up, but people were no better off for land booming. Syndicates were taking the money. He wished they would stop. JLfc would be a good thing for the colony if they could bo checked, for wherever these syndicates got their hands on a place each boom that took place was worse than the preceding one. Land io Taranaki had been boomed up to £3O an aore. The land-boomers in Wellington had boomed up land in the country as well, and the Government had to be very careful in regard to acquiring land for settlement.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8140, 17 May 1906, Page 5
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177PRESENTATION TO MR MARCHANT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8140, 17 May 1906, Page 5
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