HILL FARM SCHEME
Attraction For Young (N.Z. Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, Oct. 22. A scheme to attract young people to hill country farms should be started by the farming industry, Mr W. A. Tbcker said at the Grassland Association conference at New Plymouth today. Mr Tocker, a hill country farmer at Ohura, said he had always felt that share-farm-ing could be made to play a big part in the farming and developing of hill country. “It works very well in the dairy industry, and I know of no other way of a man getting his own farm more quickly than share-farming," he said.
“We have young men keen to go on the land without capital who could be out on a share-farming basis, with the farm gradually becoming theirs. “On the other hand, we have farmers with the land, capital, and stock who want to give up or who have come to the end of their working lives. “Some of the Lands and Survey Department development blocks could very well be farmed on a share-farm-ing basis to start these young men who cannot find £3OOO to get r start, and who as a result are lost to the farming industry.
“Our agricultural colleges should be able to bring forward a workable scheme to start share-farming,” he said.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30269, 23 October 1963, Page 14
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217HILL FARM SCHEME Press, Volume CII, Issue 30269, 23 October 1963, Page 14
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