LAND SETTLEMENT.
Sir,—Reading the press reports of the land settlement policy of the Government as brought before tho House by the Prime Minister, Sir. Joseph Ward, I was immediately struck by the similarity of the proposals to a scheme worked out Some years ago by Mr. Gerald L. Peacocke, and published as a series of articles in the New Zealand Farmer. This scheme embodied all the essential featuies of Sir Joseph Ward's plan of settlement of Crown lands and acquirement of private lands. In March lust' the writer of these articles made a comprehensive summary of his ideas, typewritten copies of which he sent to tho Minister of Lands and the secretary of the Land Settlement Conference, then ) about to sit. A little later the Prime Minister and other M.P.'s also received copies, all of which were acknowledged and the contents commended by the 'recipients. Of this summary I have also a copy and in view of the facts it 6eems to me to be only due to the writer to draw attention tc the close similarity between the scheme as he originated it and -the Government scheme as now put forward by the Prime Minister. G. E. CLUETT.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20332, 13 August 1929, Page 12
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