THE FARMER AND THE LAND.
Sir, —The high price of land and unscientific and haphazard methods of cultivation are the principal causes of the farmers' difficulties to-day, and the assertion that men are leaving farms for which they paid hardly anything is ridiculous. The land offered for settlement by the Crown Lands Department is priced higher than its probable productive value, and partly improved farms vacated by returned soldiers are next to an impossibility because o? the prices asked by the department. Having paid considerably more than the lands were worth, the Government is very reluctant to dispose of them at their real value. The city worker recognises that his welfare is inseparable from that of the farmer. A fall in the value of our exports means unemployment and consequent hardship for him. W. Miller. Jersey Avenue, Mount- Albert.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19417, 27 August 1926, Page 8
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139THE FARMER AND THE LAND. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19417, 27 August 1926, Page 8
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