FUTURE OF N.Z.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1929, Page 6

FUTURE OF N.Z.

DEPUvNDS ON THE LAND

(I3y Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

FETLDING. April 26

Speakng at the opening of tin Young Farmers’ Club Show, Hon J. 0. Cobbe. in .congratulating'the promoters on their encouraging interest in agriculture, said that for last year ending on March .‘3lst, our exports totalled £67.10-1,343. of which £53.417,328 came off the land. Recently, lie said, he had visited some of the principal factories of the Dominion, and, in complimenting the manufacturers on their excellent products, he pointed out that their market was only a local one. They must sell their manufactures within New Zealand. Therefore their progress and success depended on the prosperity of the farmers. The most troublesome problem to-day was unemployment. The relief work was only a temjjorary expedient. The real remedy was to be reached through the an nue of land settlement, and the* intensive farming of small areas. Such a remedy, required careful consideration, before its, adoption. Those encouraging young people to take a real interest in farming were doing a valuable work, and were helping to solve the unemployment problem.