Grants to New South Wales Farmers.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 December 1939, Page 4

Grants to New South Wales Farmers.

According to the annual report of the New South Wales Lands Department for 1938-39 relief amounting to £13,723.503 has been granted to farmers in New South Wales since the passing of special legislation in 1931. The total was mode up as follows:--Over-due Crown payments postponed, funded. waived, etc.. £4.538.312; estimated saving by a reduction of interests anct rents by 221 per cent for the wars 1932-1939. £1.733.000: amount saved by the reduction of the interest rate to a maximum of 4 per cent for the same period, £1.071,000; reduction of capital valuations by reappraisenient. £6.316.999; reduction of annual rentals by reappraisenient, £64.192. Many settlers, tlie report added, had taken advantage of the relief <>(' tlie Crown Lands and Closer Settleim-oi Acts, and Crown dues amounting io i: 3t!:'.:;2ij had been waived. pewtpoiiOii. or deferred during tlu - year. Liberation ot Europe. In tliis unwanted and unwarrantable conflict we have no material claims, writes Lord Queeiiborough in a message to members of (he Royal. Society ol' St. George, England, recently. All we hope to gain is llie liberation of Europe from tlie long anil intolerable threat of violence and bloodshed, used as an instrument of blackmail and oppression by Hie leaders of a political party who have contrived to gain Control of one of tlie greatest countries in Europe. We have no enmity and no bitterness lor the people of Germany; we do not desire to rob iliem of one square meh ol' tlieir native soil. Our victory will mean Hie re-est.'iblishment. for all men. of llie ri.ylil Io breathe freely; io lliink am! act as tlieir eoiiseiences dielate: to know ami to understand. mili ttei ed. Hie lives, tlie habit - : .'ihd Hie I'ortime-' of tlieir neighbours Tin - victory v, e seel; is a victory of the spirit and of tlie mind