BRYANT SETTLEMENT.
RAPID DEVELOPMENT MADE.
PROVISIONAL BALLOT HELD,
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) CAMBRIDGE, Tuesday.
Good progress is being made with the development work on the settlement at Roto-o-rangi undertaken as the result of the excellent work of Mr. A. V. Bryant as a means of helping to solve the unemployment problem, and officially known as the Kairangi settlement.
Over 100 acres have been ploughed and grassed round the old homestead. Twenty-two unemployed arc now at work, including a gang of scrub cutters. Fifteen of the men are prospective settlers.
A provisional ballot for the 15 sections lias been taken, but the allocations have yet to be approved by tlie board of director*. The men 011 the settlement have formed a social club, and a, few days ago Mr. S. N. Ziman, of Cambridge, gave an address on monetary systems.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 69, 22 March 1934, Page 15
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138BRYANT SETTLEMENT. Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 69, 22 March 1934, Page 15
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