LAND SETTLEMENT
NEW SOUTH WALES REQUIREMENTS.
[per press association.—copyright;]
SYDNEY, This Day,
Hon Mr Beeby, speaking at Wagga, sa,id that the closer settlement ques-' tion, whatever Government was in office, would have to he faced They would he bound to apply every pressure on the large landholders occupying .lands but of productive use in districts, that wpiild be * served by State rail-, ways. t v ,' 1 Opportunities must be given for privatesubdivision. Good prices could not continue. Men. not' wise .enough to see the current; of public opinion /Would suffer. The Government’s purchased blocks ' had nbt fouched the fringe of the closer settlement problem.. >
;V .They wanted 200,000 not 20,000 new settlers.'-'v,.;,.., / .'
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 April 1912, Page 5
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