LAND SETTLEMENT

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17170, 29 March 1927, Page 6

LAND SETTLEMENT

DEFINING A POLICY. , ! DOMINION CONFERENCE CALLED. AUCKLAND, March 27. For th,e purpose of setting up a New Zealand Land Settlemcnt and | Development League, the Auckland | Agricultural and Pastpral Associa1 tion is organising a large conference to be held in Auckland on Wednesday, April 13. At a conference held in Auckland last November it was decided to urge the Minister of Lands to set up a Board to go into the question of land settlement, and this he agreed to. The objects of a Development League will be to organise the evic'ence to place before the Board and generally to aim for a definite land settlement policy. It is felt there is no definite land policy in the Dominion and it is hoped to seeore one something on, the lines of those followed in Canada and other agricultural countries. It is expected that the conference will be attended by men from all' paris of the Dominion. Invitations have been sent out to presidents of all agricultural societies and chairmen of all Chambers of Commerce, also a general invitation will be extended to all those who are interested. It is hoped that the Development League will comprise a large bodv of interested men from all parts of the Dominion who will get together to stimulate primary production and land settlement.