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been considerable sales of land in recent years and 

 the process is likely to continue. The principle 

 of Mr. Jesse Ceilings' Bill should be adopted, under 

 which the State is empowered to advance the whole 

 of the purchase money, such advances being repaid 

 by annual instalments of principal and interest. 



(10) Land Transfer : The transfer of land should 

 be facilitated by an effective method of Land 

 Regulation. 



(11) To revise the whole basis of local taxation and 

 secure justice to the farmer. If the farmer is 

 assessed fairly, and at the same rate as other 

 people, then it would be perfectly fair to require him 

 to pay income tax. Indeed, this would be most 

 desirable, for if farmers were compelled to pay 

 income tax under Schedule D, they would be 

 forced to keep better accounts than the greater 

 majority keep at present. 



(12) The encouragement of subsidiary industries 

 beneficial to agriculture — fruit preserving, vegetable 

 and potato drying, jam making, creameries and bacon 

 factories, the manufacture of beet sugar, of starch, and 

 especially the distilling of alcohol for commercial 

 use, an industry of the greatest possibilities which 

 so far our existing heavy duties on alcohol have 

 prevented from establishing itself. 



If these conditions favourable to agriculture are 

 created ; if we have developed and organised official 

 machinery for dealing with the agricultural industry ; 

 and if we have better unofficial organisation volun- 

 tary Societies — what may we look forward to in the 

 way of results ? 



(i) The agricultural population will begin to 

 increase and the land will play its full share 



