SHARE FARMING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 28 March 1918, Page 2

SHARE FARMING.

NEW PROPOSAL IN NEW SOUTH WALES. Mr Ashfordj New South Wales Minister of Lands, made an important announcement recently ' regarding the Government s policy mfconriection with share fanning. He said that during the next session a Bill would be introduced to place the share farmer in a much better position than -lie was Ths Government!, by the scheme to be outlined in tne; Bill would become guarantor to the landholder for the. share farmer, who would eventually become the owner of the it £i>° n which he was working on the share system. This scheme, said the Minister, was to a large extent to replace the resumption system 3 the extension of which was becoming impossible owing to the high cost to the tetate. Thus under the resumption *$f£?» n,^ o^* cost the Government to settle 4GOO men on the land averaging the holdings at £2500 fff,. However, it was not proposed that the resumption scheme should be entirely discontinued. It would still t>e adhered tov-irt many cases as r«sa«rded settlement of returned soldiers