SMALL FARMS SCHEME.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 37, 13 February 1934, Page 17

SMALL FARMS SCHEME.

COMPLAINT OF DELAY. A complete change in the method of handling the small farms scheme 60 that worthy 0 applicants may be given an opportunity of making a home for themselves without being "separated from their wives and families, is advocated by the Hon. C. J. Carrington. He complained of the delay in getting the scheme going, and referred to the disability under which Mr. J. S. Jessep, chairman of the Unemployment Board and a member of the Small Farms Board, was placed in his efforts to get a greatly increased number of men placed on farms of their own. "The sound and sincere views that have been expressed by Mr. Jessep must be put . into definite and statesmanlike action," said Mr. Carrington. "This cannot be accomplished unless his handicap of restrictive, intensified departmentalism is removed. Mr. Jessep has observed the deleterious effect that dependence upon relief work lias on the Maori race, and the continuance of the relief system constitutes a potential menace to their future. This could be applied with equal, if not greater, force to those of the white race in New Zealand who are unemployed and desirous of becoming self-reliant on small holdings. The hide-bound departmental methods adopted have led to the failure that is in sight.".