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LAND SETTLEMENT IN ENGLAND.

NO ACTIVITY AT ITOSENT. AaipHIUAN WHEAT EXPERIMENT DISCUSSED. LONDON, July 13. In the House of Commons Mr \V. E. Elliot (Minister for Agriculture), presenting the Agricultural Department estimates, said that pnly JIOO men had settled on the land in the last six years. It would be blacjc treachery both to the settlers and to those already farming to place more men on the land when there was not a sure market for their produce. He wondered whether the House realised how tremendous and ruthless was the experiment on which the United States launched last week. A tax of 30 cents a bushel, equal to abqut 10s a quarter, "was imposed on wheat on top of tjie existing tax of 42 cents a bushel. The loaf had already gone up in New York by 20 per cent., and a further 10 per cent, increase was expected. The value of Great Britain's total wheat supplies was £42,900,000, pf which the home supply represented £6,900,000. Under the Wheat Quota Act British growers had received £2,500,000. The scheme had worked with smoothness and certainty, and had now become part of the agi'i" cultural machinery of the country.

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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20906, 13 July 1933, Page 9

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LAND SETTLEMENT IN ENGLAND. Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20906, 13 July 1933, Page 9

LAND SETTLEMENT IN ENGLAND. Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20906, 13 July 1933, Page 9