CRY FOR MORE SETTLERS,
SUBDIVISION OF FARMS.
I. '".We hear a. lot about the robber cow j but we do not hear so much about tli6 robber land," commented 'Mr. Benoni White at a meeting of the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce. Unquestionably one of the greatest troubles •'affecting Taranaki to-day, he asserted, was caused by the f?ot that farmers had too much land, and, until this was cut up into smaller holdings, farmlands could not be worked and developed to the best : advantage. This superfluity of land was thus robbing farmers of the fruits of their labour. .For this reason he welcomed the chamber's practicable scheme of attracting English secondary schoolboys on to farms in Taranaki as this would ultimately tend to the, closer settlement-of the land. '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18533, 18 October 1923, Page 14
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