VEGETABLE SUPPLIES

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 82, 7 April 1943, Page 2

VEGETABLE SUPPLIES

My congratulations to "Femina" upon having solved the vegetable problem (as I, too, have done) in the only natural way. Most other living problems have a like solution. The question with many good citizens to-day is how to make suitable land available for home gardens at O.R.P. values. During the great depression of 1886 my father secured lay ballot, a small bush farm under the Ballance L.LP. System and made good in two years. He was advanced 75 per cent on his improvements (all the family worked) in all £150, ofwhich amount he saved half, because 1 - of the cheapness of all materials, including timber (best heart rimu and totara) at 5/ per 100 super feet. Rent, interest and repayment of loan amounted to £6 10/ per annum (2/6 per week). We produced vegetables, fruit, milk, butter, eggs, bacon, etc., in rich abundance; and, my, weren t Mr. Ballance and his Cabinet astounded when they paid us an official visit in 1889. To get the land back to the people, a simple reform only is needed—the collection by the State or local authority of the social or land rent, which public fund coula be used in lieu of all rates ana taxation. If this system were taugnt in the schools, as it ought to be, there could not possibly be any economic problem.