SMALL FARM PLAN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 183, 4 August 1932, Page 20

SMALL FARM PLAN.

WORK Oi' ORGANISATION. SATISFACTORY APPLICATIONS. With the object of discussing certain essential points of procedure affecting the small farm plan for the relief of unemployment, and of arriving at a uniform basis for dealing with numerous points that have arisen, a conference was recently held in Wellington between field officers of the Department of Agriculture from .various parts of the Dominion. Until this preliminary work had been carried out it was thought desirable to suspend for a brief period certain proposed activities. Arrangements have now been made with regard to the share-milking part of the plan and all applications concerning this section of the scheme will be speedily dealt with. The field officers of the Department report that the number of offers of laud, and the terms attached to these offers, have been reasonably satisfactory, and that a very large number of applications from those desiring to be placed has come to hand. It is anticipated that no difficulty will be experienced in selecting from the applicants men who, especially by reason of previous experience, will he entirely suitable for the farming of the areas available. The number of men who can be placed under the plan either on small holdings of about 10 acres or on the share-milking side of the scheme, will be determined by the available finance provided for under" the Unemployment Amendment Act of this year, namely, £500,000.