WOULD HARDLY WORK.
A SETTLEMENT QUESTION. On Tluinsday last the Agricultural Con., fereuce resolved"That in all Government ballots for land for wit lenient lands, experienced l'avm labourers and tho sons of sina.ll farmers should be preference over all other .applicants." Yostorilny, when addressing a (Imputation frcm the conference, the l'rimo Minister raid that tho suggestion would hardly work. Sumo of the bcrt of tho settlers on tho Grown lands had come from tlio town s . Tho Land Board had a pood deal of discretion, and he tho-uglit that that, disci ot ion. shonM lx> exercised, for a man should not be allowed to go 011 tho land if he was not going to make a success of it. Mr. Massey sa.id, also, that in his Land Bill 110 had n. olau.se to UlO effect that in certain circumstancei', where settlers had placed double the usual amount of improvements 011 the land, tlio Land Board could exempt them from residence.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1818, 2 August 1913, Page 4
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159WOULD HARDLY WORK. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1818, 2 August 1913, Page 4
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