LAND BALLOTING.
PRESENT SYSTEM CONDEMNED. Tho existing system of balloting for land was condemned by speakers at' yesterday's sitting of the Agricultural So< cicties' Conference. Tho conference resolved"/ That ill all Government baUots for . land for settlement lands, experienced farm labourers and tho sons of small farmers should be given preference over all otter applicants." Mr. John iStudliolmc. the Asliburton representative at the conference, slid that iiho existing ballot system was idiotic, and that it was stupid that a daughter of an inn-keeper or a. clerk from a city offico sfliould by cha'nce oust a young man who had spent has earjy years loarnlng farming. Tho present system was, according to Mr. Hugh Morrison, of Masto.rton, not encouraging to young farm-workers \ylio had savad their money. Ho had working for him men who had been trying for some time to obtain land, but had not boon able to do so.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1817, 1 August 1913, Page 4
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150LAND BALLOTING. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1817, 1 August 1913, Page 4
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