About 120 men, formerly unemployed, are engaged at Te Kauwhata in the conversion ol’ old plantation lands into areas intended for dairying. Planned on a system of sectional contracts, the work is costing the country, through a grant administered by 11\ Department of Agriculture, a sum varying up to, and in certain cases exceeding, £2O an acre. Ultimately, however, the average cost an acre will lie. reduced by virtue of an unes tin anted return on the sale of limber won during the process of clearing. The area is 1200 acres in extent.
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17972, 18 March 1930, Page 6
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