LAND SCHEME
FOR SETTLEMENT PURPOSES,
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, May 19.
A scheme to place five thousand men on the land a® a means of overcoming the unemployment problem was placed before the Hons. J. G. Coates (Minister for Employment), E. A. Ransom (Minister of Lands), and C. E. Macmillan (Minister of Mines), by Messrs W. Sullivan (Mayor of Whakatane), L. Baird, and A. .0. Sutherland, representing a committee of residents in the Whakatane district, who formulated it. 7 The basis is an internal loan of £150,000 and the proposed settlement is of a ’permanent eli-ayc ter of crown land, 'suitable for dairying. ( The. scheme to be open to anyone who, , in the opinion of the committee appointed to control the scheme, would become a suitable settler and who is not possessed of sufficient laud to make a living. The Minsiters' agreed that the .scheme was worthy of consideration.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1932, Page 6
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150LAND SCHEME Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1932, Page 6
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