FARM BALLOTS UNDER REVIEW
(New Zealand Press Association) GISBORNE, March 15. The Minister of Lands (Mr Maclntyre) today said that he had asked the Land Settlement Board to review the present ballot system.
The Minister said he was particularly concerned with the question of deposits. A large number of men were now going into the ballots scheme and the time could come when a man would have to have points of preference in a ballot before he
had any chance of getting a farm.
He had asked the board to study the size of deposits because some men were coming forward with up to, and above, £12,000 in cash. “I believe these men should get themselves finance through the State Advances Corporation,” he said. “I believe that the land settlement ballot system is really for the genuine farm worker or young farmer who has earned a large portion of his deposit himself. “The most eligible man is the one who has worked on a farm all his life, reached the position of farm manager, has children, and has saved his deposit and falls in the age group of about 32 to 45.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31320, 16 March 1967, Page 3
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