LAND IMPROVEMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 32, 8 February 1939, Page 13

LAND IMPROVEMENT.

USE OF P.W.D. FUNDS. COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE. (From Our Correspondent.) PALMERSTOX NORTH, Tuesday. Believing that some of the £17,000,000 earmarked thk year for public works would be better spent bringing deteriorated lands into production and in making good land produce more, the Palmereton Xortli Chamber of Commerce has set up a committee to investigate such avenues of expenditure in the Manawatu district, and submit a report to the Government. It was stated that there were large numbers of men ready to go on to the land if given reasonable term* of settlement and assistance.

It was also decided to aek other chambers throughout New Zealand to investigate possible channels of land

utilisation and improvement, which would divert men and money from public worke to occupations which would return some interest on the moneye expended, and perhaps enable the capital involved to be retrieved;