The Rush for Small Farms

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 150, 29 May 1886, Page 4

The Rush for Small Farms

o— I If anyone ever doubted the genuineness ot the cry for lan I' for seitlement on terms -which would enable a man to earn a living on the soil, he must have been jit-reeably disillusioned this morning by the" spectacle seen around Mr Firth's mill. A large crowd of respectable hard-working ineurassembled there, every man eager to si'i'-i-e One "of the small farms offered by A rFirth on term* which were ad v- rased i i our Saturday's issue. We hear *i jj^od d al of the refusal ot men to set tie m the fijjhtry on impossible condition**, but the r.sult of Mr Firth's experiment already pi ..inises, to. demonstrate the oft-repeated tnjerl ion* that men would rather become KTiiiill farmers than submit to the uncertainties' of d casual employment in the trWiis. "if they could see their way to Making, a living for their families on the .AiA It is too early yet to speak in detail of*f_e s-felection made for this novel settle-luJht^b-i it affords us Very great pleasure to know that the response has been Ao hearty.- and that there can be no doubt of tlis* "lnquired number of suitable settlers being secured.— Auckland Star.