N.S.W. SETTLEMENT
PREMIER’S DETERMINAT LON (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.] SYDNEY, June 27. The Premier, the Minister of Lands, and Sir Joseph Carruthers conferred on the Government’s policy of ‘land development as it affects private estates, with representatives of the Graziers, the “Million Farms Club,” the Primary Producers’ Union, the Chamber ol Commerce arid leading banks. Sir G. W. Fuller, opening the conference, said he would not discus* whether the. private lands should be put to better use, or whether the Crown lands or private lands should be dealt -with first. The alternatives were voluntary subdivision' and compulsory subdivision. The Government would prefer to help the owners 61 land to subdivide rather than resort to compulsion, hut the Cabinet would be as firm as a rock in doing something to get men. settled on the land. It would not allow selfish private interests to stand in the way of the public good. /The conference proceded to discuss the proposals in an endeavour to present a satisfactory scheme to the Government.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 June 1922, Page 5
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