LAND SETTLEMENT
WAIKATO SOCIETY’S OPERA- * , TIONS RESUME OF ACTIVITIES (Per United Pbess Association) HAMILTON, July 22. A resume of the activities of the Waikato Land Settlement Society was made by Mr D. Y. Bryant, founder and chairman of directors, in an address to the Hamilton Rotary Club to-day. A total of £10,592 had been spent in land, and the horses, harness and plant involved an expenditure of £3410. The sum of £6439 had been spent in wages, portion of which was found by the Unemployment Board. The cost of buildings ran Into £6127. On 6000 acres owned by the society 32 homesteads had been erected in addition to 12 three-roomed hutments.
Mr Bryant said that at a recent meeting of the society’s directors a proposal was considered whereby the settlement scheme could bo‘ extended.. The Minister of Employment had been written to suggesting that the unemployed could be tried out and trained on the society’s settlements, and if proved satisfactory could be recommended for farm positions. ' Tho Unemployment Board would be required to pay the men’s wages while employed on the society's settlement.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22630, 23 July 1935, Page 13
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183LAND SETTLEMENT Otago Daily Times, Issue 22630, 23 July 1935, Page 13
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