POULTRY FARMING

Opunake Times, 3 February 1948, Page 3

POULTRY FARMING

OPEN TO EXSERVICEMEN

REHABILITATION AID

A slight easing of its restriction on rehabilitation-financed poultry farm establishment has been decided upon by the Rehabilitation Board. _ This will allow qualified ex-servicemen to undertake poultry farming on a parttime basis until the wheat position improves. The Board's previous policy was to confine meantime establishment of" ex-servicemen _as poultry farmers, .with rehabilitation finance, to those purchasing- or acquiring existing economic runs. This policy still stands, but applies to full-time poultry farming only. Loans may now also be forthcoming for farmlets which will ultimately depend for main source of income on poultry production, but which are capable of producing remunerative sidelines until such time as the wheat position improves and permits of the farmlets being developed to full economic standard as poultry units. The loan limit will be .£2OOO for land and house,' plus such additional finance as may be requited for the capital improvements needed to start operations with up to 400 birds. The above decisions were bused on recommendations from the Board's farms advisory committee, which stated thai there was a number of ex-servicemen who had been awaiting settlement in the poultry field for some considerable time. The relaxation in policy now agreed upon should provide the opportunity for a number' of the men who are prepared to combine poultry-keeping with cash cropping, and allow them to commence in the near future on their own account. While the present difficult feed position continues, however, the Board does not favour financing new propositions which are wholly dependent on poultry for their present income.

tended for rehabilitation purposes the definition of the term "child" to include a step child, an adopted child or an illegitimate child. Another section adds the Commissioner of Works to the personnel of tlic Rehabilitation Board,

The Supi-lv Regulations Act continues the Emergency Supply Regulations, which affect individual Cx-servicemen as well as other members of the community.