SMALL FARMS
(Post Special Commissioner)
minister states steady progress being made COTTAGES BEING BUILT
WELLINGTON, Wednesday. In a statement to-day the Minister of Employment the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates said that steady progress was being made on the small fatm plan for placing unemployed men on the land. "We are not purchasing land," he said, "nor taking leases of entire farm properties. What we are doing is distinct from ordinary land settlement. We are placing men- on small well-selected areas, usually about 10 acres in area, with the iriterition that those who make good shorild later hecome pei'manerit independent settlers. "Adequate steps are being takeh to ensure seeurity of title. All that is asked from a landowner is a simple agreement allowing the Government the use of a section df land and taking a form of lease for, say five years with the right of purchase or renewal. Buildings and improvements remain the property of the Crown nnless other arrangements are made already. Erection of Cottages "Definite arrangements haye beeri made for some 300 cottages for sections which have been. approved . and these are being turned out and,erected with all speed. Further orders are being placed as district officers and local committees make known their requirements. "From 300 to 400 offers of sections, in addition to those already aCcepted, are under exammation."^ Mr. Coates pointed out tfiat one effect of bririging competent ani well-selected men into a district rind openirig the way to land developirient and improvement must be to strettgtHen seeurity for existirig mortgages. Mr. Coates also mentioned ari "offshoot to the scheme which relates to dairy farmers. The Governriient will be supplying a cottage rinder suitable terms to house share-milkefs, he said. The history of the 'dairy iridustry showed that the share-milker of to-day was the farmer of to-mor-row, ancl oppojrtunities offered in this direction would open the way for some development.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 252, 16 June 1932, Page 5
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