LAND DEVELOPMENT
A BIG SCHEME
10,000 MEN MAY BE EMPLOYED CLEARING OF FARMS (By Telerraph.— Press Association) INVERCARGILL, Thursday The employment of 1000 men in clearing private land in Southland to bring it into production was envisaged by the Minister of Labour, the Hon. P. C. Webb when replying to a deputation from the Southland Provincial Executive of the Farmer’s Union. The Minister said he hoped to have 10,000 men throughout New Zealand placed on farms to clear up land and bring into production thousands of acres now overrun by blackberries and scrub. Farmers would be expected to find about 25 per cent of the cost. The deputation met the minister to bring before him the question of land development in Southland, more particularly with regard to drainage. It had previously met the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. W. Lee Martin.
Mr Webb said drainage was a big problem but machines could now do work that it was almost impossible to do economically in the past.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20988, 15 December 1939, Page 9
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166LAND DEVELOPMENT Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20988, 15 December 1939, Page 9
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