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wholly beyond my province. Should the scheme be accepted by 

 the authorities, I believe that its execution would be wholly bene- 

 ficial. I should like to add that I am opposed to any sporadic 

 experiments. As I have already stated, I consider that no experi- 

 ments are required and that demonstration should be the widest 

 possible scale to be effective. To acquire small areas would result 

 in much heart-burning. Were all owners treated alike, I believe 

 that the measure would rapidly attain general popularity. The 

 area is undeveloped and unexploited. The owners are in moat 

 cases too poor and too ignorant to be capable of improving their 

 grazing grounds. The acquisition of their unoulturable lands by 

 the State would not only lead rapidly to a great amelioration of 

 their economic condition but at the very outset would yield them 

 a fund of ready cash which would enable them ia many cases to 

 redeem the numerous mortgages and would preserve their ancestral 

 cultivation to a most valuable class of hardy agriculturists. 



7. The two copies of the draft and the maps are returned 

 herewith. 



