International Aims.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 October 1939, Page 4

International Aims.

The following resolution, affirming the aims of the Christchurch International Association, was carried by the association at its last meeting:—“That the International Association strongly reaffirms its conviction that it is only by international goodwill and a steadfast determination to understand the problems and difficulties of other nations and to do all in our power to work for their solution, that real peace can come to the world; and recognising that only on justice can a permanent international order be established, this association calls upon all men and women of goodwill to work incessantly for the securing of co-operation among all nations and classes for the common good.” Breaking in Bush Land. Evidence of the cost of bringing bush land in the Upper Wangaehu Valley into productivity was given before the Assessment Court by Mr J. Kennedy, a farmer, of Karioi. Mr Kennedy said he took up land in the locality in 1893, when it was standing bush, and he now had an area of 13,000 acres. He had been felling bush until about three years ago. The cost of felling the bush for the first 10 years was £1 17s an acre, and for the next 10 years £2 4s. He would estimate the cost of felling today at £3 an acre. Fencing cost 17s a chain in 1908. as against £1 15s today. To bring bush land into productivity today, without including the cost of buildings and their fences, would cost £6 19s an acre