LAND SETTLEMENT
Labour Government^ Inaction GALATEA BALLOTS V "I have always heen of the >opinion that land settlement is the best solution to the problem of unfemplOyed," said Mr H. G. Dickie, Member for Patea, in an address at Hastings lAst evening under the auspices of the National Party"Men on the farm have to take a long "view of things," he said. "It niay be necessary for theih to tigjhten the belt a little At the etart and they may have to work very hard indeed, but once they have turned the corner they find thomselves in comfortable positions. They, at least, are off the unemployment books." Mr Dickie expressed himself as disappointed with what the present Government had done in the matter of land settlement during the past 18 months. He iminted out that just beI'ui'o the Labour Party came into power seotions at Galatea were ready to be oeeupied, but tlie Government had not done anything regarding this matter until just recently, when four sectious liad been disposed of. "As a matter of interest I saw nothing in the papers about this ballot,"
he said. "The present Government, in disposihg of the four sections, required the applipants in the first case to have £500 available for investment on the sections before they could go to the ballot." Mr Dickie said that he kuew of one earnest aiid bard-working young man who had managcd to get together about £350 from share-milking, and after seeking advic© from the department he was told to put in his application. "He was included in the ballot and wae
successful,'' said Mr Dickie. "1 am wqndering now whether all the other applieants were able to find that, £500, or whether they too were well belcw that figure." "It seems to me that very little progress has been made by the Labour Government in land settlement as. a means of solving the unemployed problem," said Mr Dickie. "And this despite their promises. They are finding mopey for housing, which is very ! doubtful security, btit are doing nothi ingi towards putting people on the • land."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 73, 13 April 1937, Page 7
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