AUCKLAND POLICE

To the Editoi of the Dad 1/ Southern ClOll. Sin, — I have been lathei amused lately by the letters ot a "Coimtiy Settlei," in which that nnlmdiuil says that G-oveinment ofheeis and Auekl uid mci chants ought not to bo allowed to puichase lauds e\ en aftei auction, because, by such means, they t.iko it, out of the maikot foi foity aue men. Coolness aftoi a hot summei 1-. luficslung, and tin-- is leally delightful. It me ms that people who have land given to them 111 lieu of then pipage money should alone become land owncisi, and that all ol us, sn, who yeais ago, when the pissago cost t\\ ice the sum it now does, and who got no land foi it, should be excluded fiom becoming land owneisin a colony yhare the good Hud is to its population as about 1,000 acies to a in in Kvcn Milage lots accoiding toyourcoiicspondent, should be excluded f 10111 the puirhase ot all but foityaeio men, and land not bought at auction shmi'd be kept open foi them alone. On looking ovei 111 my iniiidb i,>o the lisb of foitj-acie lmim- Ui.aut*, I find man)' settled and at woik at Wingaioi, K,\i«.ika, Muiuapai, Mnnyawai, Matakana, and othei places, and nimy otheis wliose pm^iuts lend them to a town laLhci th 111 to a country lesideuco Thetc aie, sn, sucli a cka->> of foity-acie absentees who hold, but do not occupy their lands Ot theM", youi coi ie--pondent scpms wholly to have lost sight One wind 111010, let a " Countiy Settlei " stick to the gist ot the 111 ittci —to loads , let him in go the open ing ot in 1111 line-, of communication thumgh a block of land liefoie it n ofiexd for sale, and he will benefit e\ei y intending settlei in the piovmce, and help to lenitwo the chief diawbiekto the beneficial occupa tion of land — I am, sir &.C , Cimi \ T

THE LAND QUESTION AND A "COUNTRY SETTLER "

REMARKS ON THE WORKING OF THE FORTY-ACRE SYSTEM BY A COUNTRY SETTLER.
