NEW COUNTRY.
COST OF BREAKING IN.
‘‘There is nothing in breaking in new country nowadays, even if it were available,” declared a successful Taranaki farmer to a Taranaki News reporter. He went on to say that present costs were prohibitive. Bush felling would run into ,£2 10/ an acre, grass seed another £2, fencing and building nearly £ 4 > making 1 a total of ,£8 10/ an acre, a cost below which a fully improved back- , block farm could be easily obtained. Settlement of new country was consequently at a complete standstill, and any increase in production was entirely’ due to the use of top-dress-ing and better methods of farming of present lands. For public men to talk of using relief workers to break in new country, in the backblocks or on pumice land, was to betray a woeful ignorance of exist ing conditions. Settlement of th; 1 kind would prove ruinous.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 10296, 6 February 1930, Page 1
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151NEW COUNTRY. Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 10296, 6 February 1930, Page 1
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