MORE PEOPLE

Evening Star, Issue 21582, 30 November 1933, Page 13

MORE PEOPLE

DEBT BURDEN TDD HEAVY FOR PRESENT POPULATION GOVERNOR'S VIEW [Special to the ‘ Star.’] CHRISTCHURCH, November 30. The conviction that New Zealand badly needs additional population to share the burden of taxation and debt which was necessarily- incurred in the early development of the country was expressed by Lord Bledisloe when addressing n gathering at Cheviot yesterday. His Excellency was referring to the successful subdivision of Cheviot Estate in the early days of the country. “ 1 have had considerable experience of the splitting up of land,” said His Excellency. “1 do not believe in the cutting up of an estate which can provide nothing but land of a poor class fit only for extensive pastoral farming, but I have every sympathy with the splitting up of land of good o qua!ity capable of intensive cultivation. New Zealand badly wants more population of the right type. You do not want the dregs of other countries, even of tlie Old Land. You want good types of men and women. You will never be able to meet the large debts you have of necessity incurred in days gone by unless you have a larger population to share the burden of taxation and debt and produce wealth. The splitting up of large estates can be carried on to the great advantage of the whole community, always supposing that those who go on to the land are properly trained.”