NEW PIONEERS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 414, 24 December 1932, Page 5

NEW PIONEERS

a Correspondent.) .

UNEMPLOYMENT REVEAL« NEW TYPE OF AUSTRALIAN SETTLER REVERSION TO FARMING

(From

Sydney, December 16. Unemployment in New South Wales has been responsible for hringing a new type of pioneer into the areas within 50 miles of Sydney.' There iare at least a eouple of thousand of them, men, who have been thrown out of work and who, rather than live in a house or a room, the r'ent of which they cannot pay, have paid their last few shillings on a cheap allotment of land and have built with their own h'ands a hut of logs, hessian or green timher and old iron. They have secured the land for perhaps £1 or £2 deposit, with payments from one to three shilling a week. Their huts have cost them from £1 to £25. They have fenced them, and managed to secure a few fowls, a goat, and are growing their own vegetables. Some of them are huying a cow or somq pigs on the time-payment system with the money they receive from the sale of eggs or vegetables. In the municipality of Cabramatta and Canley Vale there are 300 such settlers, which means that with their families, the added population to the ,area is 1200. Liverpool has secured as many and Bankstown, Lidcomhe, Hoimshy Shire, Baulkham Ilills, Fairfield, Sutherland Shire, St. Marys, and Hurstville have all reeeived their quota. Many of these new pioneers have secured jobs, and they are spending every penny they can spare to improve their homes. Some of them have built neat weatherboard fronts to their homes, and others have purchased the land next to them. Most of the councils welcome th'e new settlers hecause they are a fine type of men who will pay their rates and improve their properties.