LAND SETTLEMENT POLICY
PREMIER'S CONVINCING FIGURES. "It is very gratifying to observe that the policy pursued with regard to the settlement of the land continues to give
very satisfactory results," said Sir .Joseph Ward to a New Zealand Times representative who accompanied him on Ins Turaiiiiki tour. Sir Joseph also gave figures to prove his contention that the policy has worked well. During the nine months ending December 31 last, 1501 1 persons were placed on 443/100 acres of land under the three main systems. There were 153 purchasers for cash, 331' selectors on the occupational tenure, and 451 selectors on renewable lease. The land revenue for the same period amounted to £450,000, of which £229,000 came from ordinarv Crown lands, £.139,000 from lands for settlement, and £50,000 from national endowments. This was an increase of £70,000 over tile total for the corresponding period of 1909. NATIONAL ENDOWMENTS.
Commenting upon the position with regard to the national endowments Sir Joseph said that the revenue from the land set apart for this purpose already reached a considerable sum, and it was expected that during the next three months of the financial year the amount would be increased to £BO,OOO. The statements, therefore, that a setting apart of a national endowment area would not financially benefit the edutional and other funds were clearly disproved by the actual facta.
VIGOROUS SETTLEMENT POLICY. The Government, said Sir Joseph, w fully alive to the necessity of settling the land, and have now sixty-eight surveyors employed in surveying and subdividing lands for settlement. Tn addition to these there are forty-eight .surveyors engaged on contract on similar work. They are busy subdividing about half a million acres of Crown lands and about the same area of native land for settlement in small holdings. For some time the Government had been considering tne question of further .subdivision of the pastoral runs in the Mackenzie and other districts in Canterbury that would fall in again early next year'. These lands were only fit for occupation and holding in large aruis, but it was the Government's duty to see that they were utilised to the utmost. In pursuance of this policy the number of runs would be increased by eighteen. It was believed, after full consideration of the circumstances, that the number in which the area would not be divided was all that could be safely managed. I
Nine estates were purchased by the I Government during the nine months for closer settlement, and offered for selection. Their aggregate area was 8000 acres. They were selected in eighty-six sections, making a gain of seventy-seven families placed on the land. The number of settlers placed upon farms or holdings by means of the lands for settlement policy since its inauguration to the end of DecemW last was 4718.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 227, 31 January 1911, Page 3
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467LAND SETTLEMENT POLICY Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 227, 31 January 1911, Page 3
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