GOING BACK TO FERN.

Shannon News, 28 November 1924, Page 2

GOING BACK TO FERN.

REVALUATION AND AGGREGATION REMEDIES.

'± AUMARUNUI, , Last B The Lauds Deterioration Comnns sion'sat Here to-day and was pre sided over by Mr G, H. * tfuu?■ (Commissioner of Crown Lenethy evidence wae given by a lai ge Sffof settlers, the: general conclusion come to being that Je «umP. iork»of capital to carry, out fencingand the elimination ot fern were responsible for much ot the. trouble on deteriorated lands. Pool road access, high rates and veiy heavy freight charges had also been ■factors which had over-burdened the <«Lid everything was not satislactoi> Slar i Crow leases were concerned. The district was too far irona rentres like New Plymouth, WelhngAuckland for those centres >to take a real live interest in the off-iii-M of the district, and tne o m must** controlled Really It -Was his opinion that until the ad.the land would always be in the &ame Wt Mr GA. Stanton, chairman of the Taumarunui County Council, said it he greater proportion of the. lung Country bush district,-if cut up into suitable holdings, would make good farms A lot of deterioration ot land was caused by over-stacking, to the smallness of 'the holdings. i£e miinimum area for holdings should oe 1000 acres. ,!,,;,„ Mr J. Soler, Crown tenant, holding 1000 acres, said the only conclusion he could come* to in the way of recommendations was a re-valuation ot all Crown holdings, a system of aggregation, with the object of giving settlers a cjiance of carry on, and a recommendation that separate land districts bg set up for the area in the middle of the island. Land could not be controlled from Auckland and Wellington. It was absolutely impossible for a farmer to model a farm in the King Country on the same lines as in other parts of the country, and more liberal subsidies were ■ required to cope with the reading problem.