" A GREAT LITTLE COUNTRY."
“I say without the slightest hesitation that the land in New Zealand has been kept better occupied than anywhere eke in the Empire.” said the Mon. A. I). Mel.coil. Minister of Lands, in hi> address at Waiuku. “New Zealand is a great little country.' - he added. From the fourteen or fifteen million acres of the Dominion's best lands exports to the cab'e of i’ii less than )• ‘."v000.000 or CoO.CO9.DM’ « -I’cadv being produced. and . the value would be increased as settlement extended and methods of farming were improved. Deferring to the development of the FLvirak swamp, the Minister said it did not follow that because values had to he written down the venture was a failure. What was a few years ago a wilderness now carried 2500 people, and this year the value of the dairy produce from this area would approach a million pounds sterling. While the State had to help in carrying the charges, however, care must be exercised in seeing that the country did not become Involved in losses amounting to millions of pounds,
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 April 1928, Page 4
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180" A GREAT LITTLE COUNTRY." Hokitika Guardian, 2 April 1928, Page 4
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