Our Colonial Empire

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Our Colonial Empire
R Acton
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The report of Messrs. S. Grant and J. S. Foster, delegates from the tenant-farmers of Lincoln- shire, Yorkshire, and Norfolk, who examined the agri- cultural prospects of New Zealand in 1880, has recently been published. Their testimony, which must be of high authority among practical men, is discriminating, but is on the whole highly encouraging. We have to notice, on the other hand, some rather bitter com- plaints, recently uttered at Timaru, in South Canter- bury, as to the difficulty of pro...curing small freeholds. It appears that very large tracts of land, in some instances more than a hundred thousand acres to one person, were early granted to the squatters as sheep- runs, under depasturing licenses; and the squatters, taking advantage of their position as first occupiers of the country, have in many cases purchased, like those of New South Wales, nearly all the land that was 120 OUR COLONIAL EMPIRE.
naturally fit for agricultural purposes. There is no room left for the small farmer, we are told, or for the working man who has saved a few hundred pounds of his wages, and who seeks to own and cultivate a small piece of land.


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