WHY NOT PAKEHA AS WELL?

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 August 1940, Page 6

WHY NOT PAKEHA AS WELL?

(To the Editor.) Sir —I am very much in favour of the Native land settlement scheme, but why not the pakeha as well? Now this is a scheme long overdue, and the only scheme whereby we can ever hope for success. We have millions of acres of land going to waste. Why not settle both Pakeha and Maori, so that both may become an asset? What is wanted is more production and it cannot' be clone unless this country is more thickly populated. Now let us hope and trust that when our soldiers return there will be homes prepared for them to step into. Now the value of this land is just what it will produce and nothing more, and this must be the buying or leaving price, and remember that taxation has got to come from the land and it must not be overdone or the whole scheme fails. As to housing for this scheme, why not erect houses on these farms on the same principle as the workers' houses in cur towns? Surely a married man is worthy of a comfortable home on a farm- where he will become an asset, as there will be no 40 hour a week with him if he is given encouragement to go on. Now I look upon this scheme as the greatest war scheme that has ever been opened up and all moneys invested will help considerably to build up our production for overseas. Now I am going to ask a question. Is this scheme going to be under State control? —I am, etc. H. PRESTON. Masterton, August 26.