LAND SETTLEMENT PLAN

Northern Advocate, 9 March 1936, Page 2

LAND SETTLEMENT PLAN

LORD NUFFIELD’S BIG

- SCHEME [Per Press Association. — Copyright.} DANNEVIRKE. This Day. The former Minister of Lands, h Sir Alfred Ransom, revealed in an on Saturday that Lord Nuffield, on a previous visit to the Dominion, had a project in mind for putting a large amount of money—the sum was' not definitely stated by Sir Alfred, but is understood to have been £1,000,000—into land settlement in New ’ Zealand and Australia.

Sir Thomas Wilford got into touch with Lord Nuffield by radio, and as a result Lord Nuffield’s project had been discussed between them. Lord Nuffield’s idea had been to settle unemployed men from Britain on the land. Sib Alfred Ransom, at the time, had not felt justified in recommending the Government to enter into a scheme that embraced only British immigrants, and asked Lord Nuffield whether he would be prepared to consider a scheme of settling New Zealand unemployed on the land.

Fifty-Fifty Basis. Lord Nuffield took the view that as his money had been made in England, he would like to do something for the working people, but he promised to give serious consideration to Sir Alfred’s proposals that the scheme should be worked on a fifty-fifty basis, one New Zealand family being settled to one British family. When Sir Alfred heard that Lord Nuffield was again visiting the . Dominion, he hoped to be able to reopen the discussion, but as Lord Nutfield’s stay was so short on this occasion, Sir Alfred was unable to see him. - Sir Alfred intends to discuss the matter with the present Minister of Lands, the Hon. F. Langstone, when in Wellington for the opening of Parliament.