VILLAGE SETTLEMENTS.
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE, BY] TELEGRAPH.—SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] Wellington, Friday. In an interview with the Minister of Lands to-day he referred to the village settlement scheme, and said that the statements published regarding the action of tho Government in relation to the special village homestead settlement scheme were, to a great extent, incorrect. He intends to clear the matter up in his speech on the Amended Land Bill. In the meantime he informed me that £22,000 had been expended on them up to the 31st of March last. Of 1260 original selectors some 900 remain on their holdings. Some £24 has already been expended per selector, with a public liability still existing for them of £40 per head, making a total of £64 per head. So much for the expenditure; now for the receipts. The receipts for rent up to the 31st of March last were 17s 2d per selector, and the liability of each selector to tho Government on that date was 6s Id per head. The Government were constantly getting letters and petitions, stating that if the Government did not continue to furnish work the settlers would starve.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9112, 21 July 1888, Page 5
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