LAND SETTLEMENT

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7019, 6 January 1910, Page 5

LAND SETTLEMENT

"Hrom thfe land sotUoment point of view, the potentialities of . the work done by Parliament during the late session are very great//* said the Son. T. Mackenzie to a D'unedin fc S'tar > inter viewer. “There has keen a steady and unostentatious removal of difficulties in the way of opening up native land for settlement, and the result of the new legislation be > to give a great impulse to the utilisation of the native areas. Then wo have passed the Act under which groups or farmers may he financed by the State in acquiring: properties for subdivision. Already I have received letter's, which I have handed to the Minister of Lands (the -Bright Hon./ Sir Joseph Ward), asking that facilities may he given for the taking up of land under the new law. Sly great desire, and the desire of the Government as a whole, is to get the peojde • on the land under such conditions as best suit their pockets and their ideals. I know that Sir Joseph Ward is most keenly interested in seeing that every possible facility is given to tiro men and women who want to work the soil, and so add to the mass of our exports and to the general prosperity of the community.