LAND SETTLEMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20901, 17 June 1931, Page 12

LAND SETTLEMENT.

Sir, —For a long time wo have been hoping the Government would give us a progressive land policy and open up some of the Government land I'or close settlement. Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. We are only a producing country and will he for at least 50 years. For years to coine there will be few openings for boys in towns, in either professions or trades. Surely someone in the United Party is competent to put forward a workable scheme of land settlement. The assisted settlers' scheme in the _ King Country of over 20 years ago, with its many faults, was successful, for one now sees many farmers who went on tho land under that scheme with little experience and very little money, and from being wage-earners in towns with practically no hope of ever accumulating wealth they have become successful farmers. In many cases they have reared strong, healthy families, from which quite a number have followed the land. They in turn now own land and are producing for export, and helping to make New Zealand wealthy. We badly need money from outside just now and no one that I can think of in the towns is producing anything which will go abroad and bring money to our shores. i aujier.