LAND COMMISSIONERS.
meeting in conference.
By Telegraph —Press Association Wellington, May 2. A conference of Commissioners of Crown Lands is being held. The Minister of Lands, in his opening address, said the last conference was hold when the war was at its height, and when war problems had to be-’ considered. Now the aftermath of the war was being experienced, and its problems were being coped with. Because of l\is anxiety to keep uniform the administration in the various districts in dealing with these questions, he had deemed it the best course to call a conference, though he knew the present was a very busy time.
Mr. Guthrie explained the difficulties of the position arising through the financial stress and the slump in the prices of produce. He wQs not so pessimistic ai some with regard to* the outlook of soldier settlement, but he was extremely anxious that no mistakes should be made, and that the right course should be adojyted in dealing with these matters. He wanted an expression of opinion from Commissioners as 'to their experience in their own districts. The conference is being continued in private.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 May 1921, Page 8
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189LAND COMMISSIONERS. Taranaki Daily News, 3 May 1921, Page 8
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