William Frederick Bailey

“ It is not possible to estimate the number of "holdings unsold"—i.e., the number of portions of land in respect of which separate advances may ultimately be made under the Land Purchase Acts. The Acts of 1903 and 1909 contain special provisions enabling the Estates Commissioners and the Congested Districts Board to acquire untenanted land, and to divide it up into allotments, and it is not possible to calculate how much untenanted land may be so acquired or to estimate the number of holdings into which it may be divided. ”

“ In this manner the evils resulting from tenants beginning their career as proprietors with insufficient capital have been largely modified, with, on the whole, eminently satisfactory results. Tenants who have received advances of this nature have not infrequently been enabled thereby to save and invest in the improvement of their holdings still further amounts of their own. ”

“ There are certain lands which cannot, or probably will not, form the subject of proceedings for sale under the existing Land Purchase Acts—as, for instance, large holdings and demesne lands the purchase money of which would exceed the statutory limits of advances under those Acts ”