GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 212, 7 March 1914, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

SCHOLARS' FARM CAMP. _i By Telegraph—Press Association, jf" Feilding, Last Night. On Monday, about fifty boys from the Kangitikei and adjacent districts, who arc taking the agricultural course in -the schools, will go into camp for a fortnight at Mr. E. Short's Almadale «tud farm. Practical work will be done with heavy horses, Hereford cattle Romnrfy, Southdown and Lincoln sheep, and lectures will be given with a view to popularising the pig industry. The Feilding Show Association has given a number of medals for competition at the camp. LAND SETTLEMENT. Wellington, Yesterday. Interviewed on the subject of land settlement, Mr. Masßey said the number of selectors of land for the year ending December 31 was 2143, and the prea selected was 677,910 acres. During tie financial year, up to the end of last month, the Government had purchased 140,692 acres, at a cost of £559,(106. Under the Land for Settlement Finance Act, during the present financial year, they had settled 4082 acres, «t a cost of £68,720, and placed thereMi 28 settlers. Mr. Massey added that a Land |Bill would be brought down- next session. He would not say the lines on which it would go, except that it would be designed to facilitate putting people on the land.