PROBLEMS IN RURAL AREAS

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30369, 19 February 1964, Page 2

PROBLEMS IN RURAL AREAS

W.D.F.F. Support Sought

The too-slow growth of rural villages into small towns and the reluctance of the State Housing Department to build homes in the country were reasons given for the population drift to cities by the chairman of the Amur; County Council (Mr A. A. Macfarlane) at Hanmer yesterday. Mr Macfarlane, who was officially opening the interprovincial conference of the Women’s Division of Federated Farmers, asked for women’s support in facing problems affecting the country. Good education was available, but the Education Department should do more about housing teachers in the country, he said.

Cheaper electric power and television repeater stations should, also be aimed for in country districts, Mr Macfarlane said. Women’s Role

Mr H. L. Pickering, member of Parliament for Rangiora, said that the opinion of members of the Women’s Division of Federated Farmers was always respected by the Government “right up to the Prime Minister.” Farmers’ wives had a unique position in marriage Theirs was an economic as well as a social partnerehdp, for they played a prominent part in their husbands’ work and they had an important role in making the country a better place in which to live, Mr Pickering said.

A 13-year-old New Jersey boy shot a grey fox near his home at Scotch Plains, then claimed a 10 dollar bounty