AGRICULTURAL POSSIBILITIES
NEW ZEALAND EXTOLLED SUGGESTIONS BY LORD BLEDISLOE (United Press Association—By Electro Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, 2nd September. Lord Bledisloe, formerly GovernorGeneral, in a letter in “The Times” extoils the agricultural possibilities of New Zealand, particularly pumice lands. He points out the developmental capabilities of large areas of potentially fertile soil and cites instances of holdings which eclipse Jesse Collings’s “Three acres and a cow,” by carrying a cow in addition to sheen, pigs, and horses to the acre. Lord Bledisloe advocates with Dominion concurrence,' the establishment of a Royal Commission of scientific exploratory scope, before which he would gladly give evidence. He also suggests the formation of a statutory company comparable with Edward Gibbon Wakefield’s New Zealand Company, with a capital of £5,000,G0G to pay at least part of emigrants’, passages and subsidise the equipment of holdings.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 3 September 1935, Page 4
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