FIVE ACRES AND A COW.
The "five acres and a cow" policy, which was ridiculed when it was projected a few years back by certain Radical members of the House, is, by a strange development of circumstances, likely to be applied with vigour and success by the Reform Government. The intention is not, of course, to make five acres the sole means of sustenance for a family. It is proposed that rurial homes shall be established to enable workers to economise in their living expenses and to add to their weekly earnings. A more beneficent scheme could scarcely be conceived. If the Government sets itself to work in earnest to provide rural homes for the toilers, it will earn the gratitude of a wide section of the community, and will do something tangible in .the way of reducing the cost of living. We hope to be in a position to announce within the next few weeks that .the Government has acquired an area of land near Mastertdta for the purpose of rural homes. There is no part of. the Dominion where such homes could be established with greater assurance of success than here.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 29 September 1913, Page 4
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193FIVE ACRES AND A COW. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 29 September 1913, Page 4
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