LAND DEVELOPMENT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21830, 19 June 1934, Page 10

LAND DEVELOPMENT

WORK OF MR. D. V. BRYANT TRIBUTE FROM ROTARY [FitOil OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT] HAMILTON, Monday A tribute to the community work of Mr. D. V. Bryant, of Hamilton, the founder of the Waikato Land Development Society, is contained in the June letter of the New Zealand governor of the Rotary movement. Mr. Bryant is described as a practical idealist, who had fully and faithfully carried out the principles of Rotary throughout his active,life. He financed and established a home for convalescents at Raglan. He also founded tli3 Wqikato Land Settlement Society, and obtained £20,000 in free gifts for its functioning. In many ether ways he had shown his public spirit and generosity, and lived up to the Biblical injunction that "man does not live by bread alone." Now it was announced, continued the message, that an anonymous donor had provided the money for the purchase of an estate at Te Awamutu in connection with the society's scheme for settling unemployed families on. the land. It had been stated by Mr. Bryant that this donation was part of a bitr .Empire scheme of land settlement for the financing of which he aimed to raise £10,000,000 in Britain. He considered that there were many people in England with surplus wealth who .Would financially support the scheme. C;. i ; ); ■lfea,