POLICY CHANGE URGED
LAND SETTLEMENT PLAN CRITICISED NEW LANDS WANTED The Government’s policy of continuing to place settlers on land already productive, instead of on blocks at present unproductive, was adversely °i iL i? ise A yesterday by the executive or the xew Zealand Land Settlement and Development League. Mr. W J Holdsworth presided. Members expressed the opinion the present scheme had not increased the number of people engaged in farming, frnd that it had resulted in productive lands being allowed to deteriorate in the hands of inexperienced settlers. The league held the opinion that no solution of the unemployment problem would be found until measures the league recommended were adopted by tho Government. Surplus labour c'.uiil be absorbed both directly on the land and indirectly in secondary industries, only by bringing new lands into production. Mr. H. R. Jenkins expressed tho opinion that at least 2,000 men should be placed on tho land annually, to meet the Dominion’s natural increase in population. The executive decided to urge the necessity for radical change in tho Government’s land policy during tho impending tour of the leagate.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 934, 29 March 1930, Page 9
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