Government Raid On Waikato Farms
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WELLINGTON, August 19. ' ' Common as lottery tickefcs,'-' how Mr R. .8. Bates described to the New Zealand Dairy Conference today the number of notice's being sent out in the Hamilton Land District by the Government to advise farmers it Would be taking over portions of their laflda, in June, 1950. Mr Bates s'aid fanberfe did not know what prioe they Would reeeiye ^nd' consequently during the period of uncertainty improvem$nts were not being .pushed ahead ia ihe normal manner. . '■« The conference. unanimou^ly passed the following remits: "Firstly, while conscioUs of our responsibilities in settling returned servicemen -this confer^ ence views. with .alarm the present prac--tice ; oL]the' Government cpmpulsorily faking over farm land that is ih fhii land efficieat pro.ductioaj secondiy^that |an aitbr^tib|L . pf the - Lihd.Siiles iA'ht be 'TecommeiidM5 '4^|i^eiii h!^ tion of highly developed lands at 1942 values; thirdly, that large-scale development of unimproved idle State - and Maori land capable of efficient production be undertaken by the State with the use of heavy machinery, the Government to absorb the costs above- -the economic value, .aiso to offef sufficient encouragement to private in'dividual owners to develop their own properties, by measureB designed to give security. of tenure to the farmers concerned.
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Chronicle (Levin), 20 August 1949, Page 3
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