LAND AGGREGATION ALLEGED

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2899, 11 October 1916, Page 5

LAND AGGREGATION ALLEGED

" Br Telograrii—tteas Association. Dannevirke, October 10. Tha Dannevirke Chamber of Commerce has passed a resolution calling the attention of the Government to the extent to which the aggregation of farming lands is reducing population in uiatiy country districts, urging it to pass a.nd; enforce legislation to prevent aggregation • of separata farms where each original farm is of sufficient area to provide adequate means of livelihood .to one. fanner and his family. Tho Chamber also passed a resolution urging restriction of tho export' of white' pane timber, and that steps be taken to preserve all available white pine forests,. A cablegram received yesterday morning from London advises of the safe arrival in England of the Y.M.OA. field secretaries, Ray D. Baker, of [Wellington, and Stajlley V. Parsonson, of Masterton. ' With tho last reinforcement Mr. E. R. Warburton," of Greytown, and Mr. D. 'A. Morton, of Palmerston North, wero sent out. There died at Trentham on Friday last aax old and well respected pioneer pettier of Wellington, in the person of Sir. William... P. Barber, father of Mr. W, H. P. Barber, chairman of directors of the Wellington Woollen Company, And a member of the City Council. The late Mr. Barber, who was B'2 years of . age, enlisted in the 6oth Regiment in England when only 18 years of age, and came to New ZeaJand as a member of the Regimental Band in 1852.: With his regiment he fought all through the Maori war, and at the termination of hostilities ho obtained his dischargo and settled in Wellington. Here he established the dyeing business, in Cuba, Street, which is stiU conducted by his grandsons. Mr. Barber was a capable musician, aJid at different times was conductor of the Wellington Guards' and the Wellington City Rifles' Bands in the old. volunteering days. He leaves only one son (Mr. W. H. P. Barber) and two daughters. ITho cable news in this iesns accredited fai the London "Times" has appeared in tllat journal, hut only where eipressly ptated is such -news the editorial opinion oJ '"Ifce Times."]