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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4513, 4 October 1930, Page 4

“Two sheep and a-half country is not worth more than £7 to £9 an acre to-day” said Mr. T. W. Howie at (lie Development League meeting in Wanganui the other night. Mr. W. E. .MeElwaine said that lie was pleased to hear farmers express their opinions on matters of that sort. He thought the league would be well advised to set up a committee which could offer advice to young men about to take up land, and guard them from pitfalls. Mr. Howie: “And they wouldn’t take it.” The greatest perils which will face the Dominion in the future are, in the first place, too great dependence upon the Government to undertaike tasks which are more appropriate for individual enterprise and the employment of individual capital, and- in the second place the drift of her population from the countryside into the towns. The former threatens to kill Hew Zealand's personal initiative and sound industrial development, the latter to kill Hew Zealand herself. These views were expressed by Ms Excellency the Go-vernor-General (Lord Bledisloe) in a recent address at the Wellington 'Rotary Club.