Mr. G. H. Reid has been expressing views upon the "The Power and lits of Legislation" in his own forcible and eloquent way declared that the greatest duty Australian statesmen had to perform st present was that of unlocking STATISTICS, the land in a way that must be The Commonwealth Statistician has much wiser one than that adopted by been publishing recently the results of Sir John Robertson some fifty years his latest work. covering the period of ago. Had that gentlemen adopted a the Commonwealth's existence from better plan, there would be three times 1900 to the end of 1907. Figures are the number of suitable men upon bald facts and do not allow themselves land that occupy it at present. He to be influenced by sentiment. If i had a great admiration for a large were otherwise some wealthy Victorian estate owner who wisely administered would surely have bribed the Statistician his estate, but the greatest contempt to bring out results little more for one who neglected it, or locked it favourable to his State. " Barrack for up waiting for it to become of greater your own State every time" is the value. He considered would be sentiment of most Australians. It much better for Australia if the largest would be interesting if not altogether land owners possessed only some 4,000 edifying to hear private opinions from or 5,000 sores of agricultural land. Victorians upon these istles.
The figures will make New South Wales people rub their hands with satis-
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