The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 68
Sir Robert Stout
Sir Robert Stout.
"I approve of the principle being affirmed that the State should, whenever circumstances require it, have the right to purchase any land needed for settlement."
Speaking of the large freehold blocks he says :—"It would be quite possible for the Government to buy up many of those estates." "It would be practicable to cut these runs into small farms and to let them in perpetual quit rents." "The rent would pay the interest." "Can any one conceive anything more likely to promote the progress of the colony than properties of that kind, being cut up into small farms." "They" the tenants "might at once enter into possession page 19 of these farms subject only to the payment of a quit rent and without any of their capital being taken from them."