LAND POLICY

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 462, 2 July 1937, Page 4

LAND POLICY

Farmers’ Council Proposals A definite land policy with a view to enabling sharemilkers and farm employees of* proved efficiency to obtain their own land was discussed by the New Zealand Farmers.’ Council at its monthly meeting at Stratford yesterday. A sub-committee was set up to invesigate the matter for later pre. senta.tion o.f suggestions to the Government, As an inducement to young men to take up farming, it was suggested during the discussion, a voluntary sch-eme should be inaugurated whereby part of a worker’s wages would be put into a fund subsidised by the Government. When Crown land was Invariable for settlement and was put up at ballot such .contributors could be given preference in the taking up of sections. A scheme of that nature would, it was thought, make farming prospects more attractive to young men and would assist to increase the number of desirable settlers to alleviate the shortage of labour in the Dominion’s primary industries. Land would by those means be worked by sharemilkers and .farm labourers of efficient character who were at present precluded from holding their own land.