SURVEYORS FOR MALAYA
New Zealanders To Leave Today (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, January 24. Five New Zealand surveyors, with their wives and children, are due to leave Wellington by air tomorrow for Malaya to survey jungle areas for a farming development programme under the Colombo Plan. The New Zealanders, who will be away for two years, will join surveyors who left here some weeks ago. bringing the number of the group to 12, plus the families. Their work will be to survey jungle lands, and mark out sites for farms, towns, and housing settlements. The Malayan Government intends that each farmer will have a half-acre site in a new township for his family, as well as a five-acre farm from which to make his livelihood. Those to leave tomorrow are Messrs K. G. S. Cromie. of Wellington, with his wife and four children; K. M. Mahony, of Ashburton, with his wife and two children: G S Burton, of Auckland, with his wife; D M. Gardiner, of Levin; and B T. Larsen, of New Plymouth
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29421, 25 January 1961, Page 18
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