PLIGHT OF FARMERS
LAND ABANDONED IN CANADA POSSIBLE SOURCE OF MIGRANTS [by telegraph —own correspondent] CHRISTCHURCH. Friday Parts of Saskatchewan were in a very bad way, and in the "dust-bowl" area millions of acres had been abandoned, said Mr. A. M. Carpenter, of Fernside, North Canterbury, who passed through Canada on his return from Europe. Drought, sandstorms and grasshoppers had converted a productive wheat-growing and stock-raising area into country which would not grow wheat or carry stock. An enormous number of farmers were being fed by the Government, and the authorities contemplated removing thousands of them from the devastated areas to other, parts of Canada, where they could make a fresh start in life. Mr. Carpenter said that if the pros--pect .of regular employment 011 farms in New Zealand was held out to them bv the Government, hundreds of experienced farm workers would he induced to'emigrate to New Zealand. At present they were destitute.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22867, 23 October 1937, Page 8
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154PLIGHT OF FARMERS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22867, 23 October 1937, Page 8
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