SMALL FARMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21990, 22 December 1934, Page 12

SMALL FARMS

PREPARATION OF AREAS SPEEDING-UP PROCESS TRANSFER OF LABOUR • • SINGLE, MEN FROM CAMPS The Unemployment Board has decided to devote, at the beginning of the new year, special attention to the development of small farina. Its proposals trill involve the transfer from single men's camps of a number of men who will help to speed up the work of development now taking place on small farm areas and thus bring nearer the day when the farms will be settled. A number of blocks of varying size hare been acquired by the Small Farms Board for the purpose, when cleared and developed, of being settled by selected unemployed workers. The Lnemployment Board is providing all the labour required for this preliminary work and at present about 500 men are so engaged in the Auckland Province, in which the majority of the proposed Email farms are situated. In order to shorten the period which must elapse before actual settlement can take place the Unemployment Board has decided to provide from 200 to 300 additional men. To finable this to be done it has been found necessary to withdraw a certain proportion of single men at present engaged in county council camps throughout the province. The change-over will be effected during the holiday period and early in ibt? new year development work will be proceeding at an increased rate. The transfer of men to small farm blocks will involve in several cases the provision of additional accommodation. In other cases the existing accommodation will be filled to its intended capacity. The work to be done embraces such tasks as fencing, draining and rough development.