Rural education
Sir, — I am pleased that your correspondent, Shirley Bennett (August 27) has brought more of the high cost of sheep-farming to the. attention of your readers. My point was that sheep-farming, however efficiently carried out, is a very poor use of land. For example, about 10 times as much, in food value, could be produced if cereals for bur-an - were grown rather than grass for sheep. And smaller farms, much smaller than most in Canterbury, are more productive, and can mean employment for many more people. As a higher population density in the country areas would bring services urban dwellers consider essential, do I underst dMs Bennett to be supporting my plea for at least as good a deal for New Zealanders as sheep get? — Yours, etc., T. N. D. ANDERSON. •August 28, 1979.
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