Land-sharking

The main object in making Colonists pay for their land, instead of the Government giving it to them, is to prevent what is called the land-sharking system.

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Land-sharking was not, however, limited to persons whose sole object in life was money-making, as several missionaries, Mr. Wentworth, an eminent Sydney lawyer, and the British Resident, were to be found among them.

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In the old land-sharking days the European could not acquire land from a Native until it was shown that the Native had enough land for himself and his family; but the Government had bought the last acre, and also the interest of the children.

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Speculation and its abuses intensified, including practices such as land-sharking, a staple of Westerns, in which unscrupulous frontier agents sold land warrants to farmers on credit, often at very high interest rates.

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