SETTLEMENT SCHEME
NON POLITICAL BOARD APPEAL FOR SUPPORT A strong appeal that people in the main centres should support the formation of a Land Settlement and Migration Board removed from political influences was made by- .Mr. X. G. Gribble, secretary of the Xew- Zealand Land Settlement and Development League, in an address before the Auckland branch of the Overseas Club Just evening. Mr. F. E. de Guerrier presided. Mr. Gribble quoted several instances of men in Xew Zealand who were anxious to settle on the land if given the chance. Peoples throughout the world were land hungry-, he said, and, according to Lord Lovat, Xew Zealand’was backward from the land settlement Point of view. - Our national policy- of Putting undue burdens on the land was mistaken. Xew Zealand possessed 66.000.000 acres, of which 4,000,000 was Poor land, 19.000.000 was under cultivation. and 40,000.000 was vet to bo broken in. Population and production were the country's most valuable assets. Though the Auckland City Council could raise capital for non-productive schemes at , per cent, land drainage boards had to pay 9 per cent, for work of vital imPortanee to the eountrv. Tn five vi»ar« ending 19:19, £4 2,000.000 had been'spent railways.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1009, 27 June 1930, Page 7
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199SETTLEMENT SCHEME Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1009, 27 June 1930, Page 7
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