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POPULATION ON THE LAND. For ever}' man in the country, It has been said, you can carry two in the town. Mr Wv J. Holds worth, president of the New Zealand Land Settlement League, said the Dominion went one better' and had three' men in the cities to every one in' the rural', districts. Under a sound sys- 1 tern of land Settlement the proportion, he considered, tended to return towards the two-to-on©' ratio. As an indication there were 1018 applications last month for nine farms put up for ballot by the Government. On the' part of those applicants there was a distinct desire to leave the towns. The idea that the farmer’s life was monotonous and dull did not hold today. Instead the life w,as freer; and healthier than city occupations. Other countries, even those highly industrialisedy appeared' to have a higher proportion of their populations onthe land. In France, with 40,000,000 in 1926 : , the' rural population exceeded' the 1 urban 'by almost a million; andi in the - United the distribution' in 1921 had been 51.4 per oent übban and 48.6 per cent rural.

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