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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 69

Land Monopoly in Victoria

Land Monopoly in Victoria

was so potent that my paper on "Small Holdings of Land the Mainstay of Individuals and Nations" was only noticed in the just published "Transactions" by its title. I freely admit the feebleness of my attempt to deal with such a great question; the importance of the subject was the same, nevertheless. Often has my attention been directed to the progress of assisted settlement on small holdings in your beautiful islands, inaugurated I think by Sir Robert Stout and the Hon. John Ballance. The profound theorists who prosper under the present condition of finance may ask how is the State to discover what is an adequate emission of State paper! These querists will desire elaborate calculations and bewildering columns of figures. These are the receptacles of dust that they ever have at hand to blind the eyes of the public; but is not this the section for statistics? Not long ago a banker before a meeting in Melbourne, at the Bankers' Institute of Australasia, broadly asserted that banks' elaborate figures were