SETTLING THE LAND

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 55, 6 March 1914, Page 8

SETTLING THE LAND

RECORD OF PROGRESS. The subject of land settlement wa-s referred to by the Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey) in the course of a. conversation with a Post representative to-day. Mr. Massey stated that the number of selectors for the year ended 31st December, 1913, was 2143, and the area selected, was 677,910 acres; ordinary Crown lands, land for settlement, and national endowment,, 1414 selectors, 389,589 acres; pastoral leases and miscellaneous, 682 selectors, 281,163 acres; education and other endowments, 47 selectors, 7158 acres. A During the present financial year, he added, the Government had purchased 140,692 aci-es, at a cost of £559,606. Under the Land Settlement Finance Act an area of 4182 acres had been settled by 28 seHlprs at a cost of A! 585729. "Those arc facts which, 1 think, speak for themselves," said the Prime -Minister by way of comment. Questioned further, he said there would be a Land Bill next session, but he could not indicate tho proposals that would be embodied in it, ekcept to state that they would be designed so as to affojjj the people larger facilities for getting 1 oa to the laud.

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