Some food for thought was contained in figures showing the drift of the rural population towards the cities, quoted by Mr S. Pickers at a meeting of Taranaki delegates of the Farmers’ Union. In 1901 the rural population of New Zealand formed 60.78 per cent, of the whole, but in 1921 it had fallen to 51.23, whilst during the same years the population of the towns had increased from 39.13 ver cent, to 43 73. This was due, Mr Pickers considered, to the lack of adequate educational facilities for teaching the younger generation how to make a success of,farming. For Influenza, tale Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4598, 15 August 1923, Page 2
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106Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4598, 15 August 1923, Page 2
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