THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENTS.
It is somewhat. surprising that the strongest argument of all advanced against the National Endowments Bill is not- more frequently used by the genuine freeholders in the House. The freehold tenure is best for the individual, and experience has proved that it is advisable in the interests of the State as a whole that agriculturists and pastoralists should be enabled and encouraged to became freeholders, provided their holdings are of a reasonably limited area. As we have frequently pointed out, there is really no such tenure as an absolute freehold—no land can be held apart from the State, and all land, no matter what the form of tenure under which it is occupied, is subject to taxation and is taxable'to whatever extent the State deems desirable. In forming national endowments the State is simply endowing itself with its own lands, and by doing so is preventing large areas of land from being occupied uikbr the freehold tenure. This is the objection that freeholders should endeavour to impress clearly upon the people of the country.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8863, 24 October 1907, Page 4
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