TREES VERSUS SETTLERS
MR. HOCKLY PREFERS SETTLERS (From Our Own Correspondent) TOKOROA, To-day. “If I have to choose between trees and settlers I choose settlers every time, w stated Mr. F. F. Hockly, M.P., Reform’s candidate for Rotorua, when addressing Tokoroa settlers last evening. He referred to the fact that many farmers in Matamata County fear they will be isolated by certain promiscuous treeplanting operations which have taken place on suitable farming lands. The candidate also referred to the fact that it seemed that a black mark had been placed against the Tokoroa district by those in Wellington, yet ho had been told that day that the milk received at the local cheese factory this season had broken all records, though the flush was not yet attained, and a further 200 cows had yet to come in. He announced that the Government had decided that the Department 0f,.. Agriculture should subsidise railway freights on manures on the Taupo Timber Company’s line to the extent of providing through freights from Otahuhu to Auckland, provided the company remitted the other half. The company had agreed to this proposal, so that the freighht from Putaruru to Tokoroa would be reduced from 11s a ton to 7d a ton for sixton lots, a saving of 10s sd.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 501, 2 November 1928, Page 7
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