SHARE FARMING
.NEW PROPOSAL Ttf NEW SOUTH ~. . WALES. "'.' : 'Mr. Ashford, New 8311 th Wales Minister of Lands, made an important .;announcement recently,-regarding the ■ Government's policy in*connection with, •share:farming. He said that during ■ 'the .next session a Bill would be in''troduced. to, place the share farmer in a'much "better position than he was in' ..to-day. ;'rhc' Government, by the . .scheme. to. be outlined in the - Bill, would become guarantor to the landholder for the share farmer, who would eventually become the owner of the land imon which ho was working on j the share system. This scheme, said the Minister, was to a large extent to replace the resumption system, tne extension of which was becoming impossible owing to the high cost to the State. Thus under the . resumption ssheme it would cost the Government £10,000,000 to settle 4000 men 011 the land averaging the holdings at £2500 each. However, it was not proposed | that the resumption scheme should tie; entirely discontinued. It would still j be adhered to in many cases as regard-. Ed settlement of returned soldiers.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 126, 14 February 1918, Page 8
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178SHARE FARMING Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 126, 14 February 1918, Page 8
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