SMALLER DAIRY FARMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 November 1928, Page 5

SMALLER DAIRY FARMS.

NATURAL RESULT OF ECONOMIC CONDITIONS. “Undoubtedly with the New Zealand standard of wages the dairy farmers will depend in the future more upon the single-handed efforts of selves and their families to work' their farms,” said the president of the Employers’ Federation at the recent annual conference. They will find they can obtain better net returns for themselves working smaller areas. “Hence without any artificial .pressure the present dairy farms in the near future will be extensively subdivided. The State will be able to assist in this by helping purchasers to finance rather‘than by putting up the market on these purchasers by .wholesale Government purchases for State settlement.

“Moneys borrowed to lend to purchasers will be used more advantageously than if expended in compulsory purchases. The expenditure of £15,000,000 in settling returned soldiers upon the land did much to create the disastrous boom l of 1920. What would be the result of the expenditure of even larger sums now in State purchase?”