BACK TO THE LAND

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23057, 7 December 1936, Page 12

BACK TO THE LAND

TO THF EDITOR Sir,—Although much appears to have happened at Home, the heavens have not fallen here yet, and it behoves the Prime Minister and all our rulers, parliamentary and local, to put on their thinking caps and set our houses in order and encourage both able-bodied men and women to work as did their grandfathers and grandmothers, and their own fathers and mothers.

If instead of building more houses in towns they built a workman's cottage on the property of every primary producer who needs to employ a help, I am sure some 50 per cent, at least of the 50.000 now on the dole in towns would assert their independence under the needed help of those who are keeping the ship of State on an even keel.

Mr Seddon drove those in need of work out of towns into the country, and they, with the help of their wives, created the dairy industry which is so helpful to all to-day, but unfortunately people have been, and are now being attracted back to town by the easy money offered and provided, which is sapping the independence of all.

With the help of the derided cow or two the country resident, with a pig and a few fowls and a well-kept vegetable garden, need not call the King his uncle.—l am, etc., A Mere Man, and Not a Politician.