LAND SETTLEMENT.
THE GOVERNMENT'S POLICY. AVOIDING ANOTHER BOOM, [Br TELEGRAPH.— correspondent.] WELLINGTON. Tuesday. " The Government is not going to assist in creating another land boom," said the Prime Minister when asked if there was, any prospect of developing the land settlement policy bo as ito help solve the tinemployment difficulty. - ..: Mr. Massey added that the Government had an area of about ! 400,000 ; acres il in,; various parts of New Zealand available for settlement. Suitable men <xrald foe put on this land right away. Some of jitad been held - for returned soldiers and had not been taken up ,by them. Moist of the land was sheep country, but there were blocks suitable for various forms of production. '•'.;.''.'"■' ; '-'. : "'" '•...* '''.^
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18080, 3 May 1922, Page 6
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116LAND SETTLEMENT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18080, 3 May 1922, Page 6
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