Sir George Grey.

"One generation should not be allowed to make laws binding the land up from the generations which follow." "The men who deliberately allow, in the unjust manner hitherto done, page 18 immense blocks to be picked up by a few individuals are providing misery for the people who are to follow them.

"Now the meaning of Land Nationalisation is that the whole of the lands should belong to the public, that they should be let to tenantry, that the rents should be the property of the State, and that the rents should be applied to take the place of taxation, in which case not only would the whole community be relieved from the burden of taxation, but a great many advantages would be bestowed on the public at large—That, by the most advanced thinkers of the day, was what every nation ought to aim at."