SMALL HOLDINGS SCHEME.
WAIKATO FARMERS' VIEWS.
DISAPPROVAL EXPRESSED. [from our own correspondent.] "HAMILTON, Sunday. A resolution expressing disapproval of the ten-acre scheme on the grounds that it was considered doomed to failure as a means of .relieving unemployment and was unsound economically was carried at a meeting of the Waikato sub-provincial branch of the Farmers' Union in Hamilton. The opinion was expressed that it would be for the ultimate good of the country to bring in much larger areas of land at the same capital cost. The president, Mr. J. H. Furniss, said there would be only a handful of landowners to whom the men could sell their labour, and these landowners could dictate their own terms. When conditions improved generally the new farms would be abandoned by hundreds and the land and cottages would be thrown back on the hands of the Government. The country would have to stand the expense of a scheme which, he considered, would prove a failure. The object of the scheme was apparently to make the men ultimately independent, continued Mr. Furniss. It was impossible for them to become independent on 10 acres.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21225, 4 July 1932, Page 11
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189SMALL HOLDINGS SCHEME. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21225, 4 July 1932, Page 11
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