THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
MORE settlement; More land for the people was a necessity. To restore the ba.ance between town and country another 50,(XX) people had to he put on the land, and at the same time the present deletion of the p pulation on the land had to he arrested. The reduction of 15,009 in. five years —ns far too heavy. The lack of progress in the country to-d"” wa ■■ due +■' the fact flint the banks wc" n ove-fowi g w : th money, and people from end to end of the country had money to invest and yet lie money was not being distributed owing to insufficiency of land for settlement. —Sir Joseph Ward.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1929, Page 4
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115THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1929, Page 4
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