Acting on the recommendation of the Land Purchase Board, the Government has purchased, for soldier settlement, two properties from. Mr. E. Short. One of these properties is the Almadale farm, on the Oroua River, behind Parorangi homestead, of 187 acres. This property comprises rich river deposit land, and it is provided with all the necessary buildings and improvements. It will make ideal dairy farms. The other property is a 472-acre farm on the Colyton Road good sheep country, highly improved. It. is understood (says the Feeing Star) that in both cases Mr. the properties to the GovernmeWL.t a price substantially below the present market value. * A firm believer in immigration of the right kind is Mr. W. M. Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia- At a recent conference of mployers and workers he remarked: “The Government believes that immigration is the only salvation for labor: the more the people, the more the wealth. So far as the procuring of expert workmen goes, the Government WiU 4? It* PPTtWn
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 January 1921, Page 5
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