The Daily Times. THE OLDEST MANAWATU JOURNAL ESTABLISHED 1875. TUESDAY, DEC. 2, 1884.

Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1361, 2 December 1884, Page 2

The Daily Times. THE OLDEST MANAWATU JOURNAL ESTABLISHED 1875. TUESDAY, DEC. 2, 1884.

«.-• ..-L.M •.!!•'• m ■» • ( « , ' - - , ;>..-■ ■'!>■- It) »'.«•! TiTEOiiGHthe medium of '^he Press Ass^Utibtifwe'lw^ ygstefday J to^ aM^ip^^a^^jitliiie'^qi $_$ ne|w' regulation^ regarding.Bmail farm set> tlementa alluded* to by> Mr- Ballance m- 'his" speech 1^ at ■ Wanganui; 1 *"Th_ reguJStTbnamtk "a ii'ew""aep>f ttfr^ m .^ wprXiof |eig|n}en£ '^Tjie ferred4>ay.meß.|b 3 8y8.feeja has hitherto, aimed Ab -fixing the > individual' settler on the' soiK f Sp farfrotn giving .fa^Uti6W^& i Vdi)ttii3ali&__ 'toT^a-U^np land m nearly every giro where defeiTed«payment land has been offered there has been a deliberate f attempt :to prevent tfee , es^bliahni^nJ; of a community pf interest hy,alternating the block with sections sold for cash, which as a rule arc purchased by aDsentees, In somo cases where these would have been purchased by deferred , [payment^settlers the regulation prohibiting "them acquiring more than" a certain amonnt of land has operated as a bar. Now it is a notorious fact that the cash purchaser i» not, as a role, a fletfcler m the proper iedseol tb'e term. ije; plays* wsi#_g^ ghanei., llTter© ai» no temptations '= to settlement m bust districts whera an" immense amount of labor has to be expended before. a return is ebtaiu«<i v Those who,, ..talce, up land. : Qn! !. deferred payments, it may safely be said, only do so because they can acquire it m no other' way. Is is., bu^. .lateHj particle io 4 a, - Wellington . .contemporary m which the bush settlerwas depicted asa kind ot rural aristpofat lounging iniylyan fladeiand ;n a M year or so afjjer to his ' secijoia , taking his eaie under, his own. vine, and fig tree.- The- writer had drawn largelyon his imagination, for the reality is far removed from his ideal. There lis probably no class m the com« munitymore desor ring of sympathy than the deferred payment settler who has, m a^given time, to accomplish the triple objects of clearing and improving his section, of paying his instalments and of deriving hfs sustenance from the soil. The cash purchaser fully understand! the drawbacks of the situation, and quietly waits till he can take full advantage of tbe " unearned more■- ■ menfc," the improvements made to ' surrounding sections by^the deferred payment settlers adding to the value of his property to an extent more than sufficient to compensate him for his outlay. Under any system the absentee land proprietor is not viewed with high admiration and he is decidedly a -tumbling block m the way of settlement m New Zealand. -Ey'ary kpcaideflettlar who iue bben.

shut out from the world for want of roads will testify to this. Knowing that the want of a common interest has been detrimental to the work of settlement so far, we are therefore glad to see that the plan to be tried has for its main feature the proposal to enable associations of men to take up blocks on deferred payments.