THE FIRST SMALL FARM

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17953, 3 December 1932, Page 6

THE FIRST SMALL FARM

SECTION ON THE COAST NATIVE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY The Gisborne district now fms its first small farm under the Government s scheme for the relief of unemployment. A section of 14 acres on the Coast has been approved for settlement under the small lariu plan. Advice to tins effect has been received by Mr. J- D. Anderson, who inis assumed control oi the whole of the Gisborne and coastal districts as the district organiser. Originally, these areas were divided into two, Mr. M. A. Black, agricultural instructor, taking the northern and eastern section, and Air. Anderson the southern and western. At present, however, Air. Black’s time is fully occupied in seed certification work, and the whole of the small farm plan operations are now handled by Ah’. Anderson. The section for which approval lias been received is at Arero, between Tolaga Bay and Tokoinaru Bay. 'I be area of 14 acres is above the average set down for the plan, the limit being usually regarded as 10 acres. It is native leasehold property, mostly flat country’, and it is ail in grass. Jt is to be occupied by an unemployed man who, it is stated, has good prospects of securing work in the vicinity to supplement his earnings from the farm. Although this is the first small farm settled in the Gisborne area, the sharemilking provisions of the small iarm scheme have been availed of to a small extent. Two sliaremilkers are receiving assistance under the scheme, one at Hexton, and the other at Hangaroa,