SOLDIER SETTLEMENT.
■ Will tlic present methods of soldier settlement increase production materially in New Zealand? Practical farmers have expressed doubts on the question, and Mr D. McGregor, of Gladstone, ventured the opinion at the Agricultural Conference at Wellington that a more satisfactory plan might have been pursued. Early in 1916 farmers in the Wairarapa had UTgcd that the only fair way of settling more closely the largo estates was to tako proportionately from each holding. There were still large estates. In the Gisborne district one man shore 63,000 sheep, another 40,000, and several over 30,000. In the Wairarapa twelve men owned a quarter of a million sheep between them. Land might have been found in suitable quantify at reasonable prices, and Ihc only way to increase productiveness was to tako from those who held tho larger blocks, to occupy Crown lands and to improve poor land. A remit was adopted urging tho Government to take steps to purchase more land for the settlement of soldiers waiting for the opportunity of going on the land.
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Otaki Mail, Volume 27, 22 October 1919, Page 4
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174SOLDIER SETTLEMENT. Otaki Mail, Volume 27, 22 October 1919, Page 4
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