It was only in 1907 that the graduated land tax began to be enforced in a way automatically to break up the large estates as it had been expected to do, and it was only in 1910 that the new and more heavily graduated scale went into effect.

And finally it was only in 1907 that large landowners were forbidden to purchase, even indirectly, government land.
It has taken all these years even to discourage large estates effectively, to say nothing of nationalization.
"Some writers have predicted that the appetite for reform by taxation will grow, and that the taxation will be increased and the exemptions diminished until all the rent will be taken and the land practically confiscated, according to the proposals of Henry George.

But the landless man, when he becomes a landholder, ceases to be a single taxer, and is strongly opposed to Socialism.

The land legislation of New Zealand, although apparently Socialistic, is producing results directly opposed to Socialism by converting a lot of dissatisfied people into stanch upholders of private ownership of land and other forms of private property.

The small farmers, then, are breaking away from their former allies, the working people of the towns, who now find themselves in the minority, but who are increasing in numbers and who will demand, sooner or later, a large share in the product of industry as the price of loyalty to the capitalistic system."[81] Without land nationalization the process of nationalizing industry cannot be expected to proceed faster than it pays for itself--for we cannot reckon as part of the national profits the increased land values national enterprises bring about.