FARM PLAN IN INDIA
Sponsorship By East Coast (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 20. The East Coast is sponsoring through C.0.R.5.0. the establishment of a 57-acre farms near Napur, India, to benefit the aged, the destitute and lepers. A feature of C.0.R.5.0.’s work this year was the acceptance of a number of projects by various areas and the East Coast was financing the Nagpur project, a C.0.R.5.0. official said today. The cost of the project was £BOOO of which £5350 had already been spent purchasing land. The scheme was the idea of the Rev. R. Courts, an English missionary at Nagpur for 26 years. He would manage the farm. The farm already produced fruit, vegetables, wheat and cotton, and the C.0.R.5.0. project was to develop it for dairy and other production.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30808, 21 July 1965, Page 3
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