LAND FOR SETTLEMENT.

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19637, 25 July 1935, Page 9

LAND FOR SETTLEMENT.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —I notice an article in Monday’s Times announcing that a local institution has bought 10,000 acres, involving an expenditure of a miserable £i per acre on the property. What is the Government doing to allow such a large piece of the people’s assets to fall Into the hands of any private corporation, whose object Is to drag a big Interest from anyone seeking a piece of God’s own country? I consider that sort of business -should be stopped. It Just shows, more than ever, that we have a Government that is out tp give -the big interest concerns & good innings, to the detriment of the people . of the whole country; instead of taking 1-t at a reasonable price to put bona fide settlers on. This is; about the last straw, . and it- is likely to put thousands and -thousands into the pockets of speculating investors whose object is to live on the hacks of the • hard-working men, whose’credit,.’welfare, happiness and homes have.', been destroyed, and they .themselves turned out to swell the ranks of the unemployed. All the .Ministens of the/.Crown,should be peremptorily given their walking tickets, and an eleotion called right away. -I- am, etc., . . . JARVIS. Frankton, July 23, 1935.

' we have excised a portion of the above, letter, for reasons that should be obvious ,to the'writer. —Ed. W.T.