SCANT CONSIDERATION
LAND SETTLEMENT AIM SMALL SPACE IN BUDGET (I’arliaimmttiry Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. Land settlement had received scant consideration in the Budget, declared tihe 'Leader of the Opposition, the Hon. Adam Hamilton; in his criticism of that document in the House of Representatives last evening. The Minister of Lands, he continued, did, not receive much space, for it was nothing like the amount devoted to social security. Why did the Minister not '.state what was done last year in the way of land settlement, instead of merely referring to some wonderful cattle and sheep? If he had; had good news to give, it would have been there, but the s.ory was black. The Hon. W. Lee Martin, acting Minister of Lands: I gave it on the Add ress-.in-Reply. Mr. Hamilton declared that if the farmers’ income was protected against rising costs and made comparable with other incomes he predicted that land settlement would go ahead on .its own account, but while men earned relief pay on much easier terms It would be hard to bring marginal lands into production.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20006, 3 August 1939, Page 5
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180SCANT CONSIDERATION Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20006, 3 August 1939, Page 5
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