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PAYING IN BRITAIN LONDON, Oct. 13. The placing of unemployed workers upon small plots of land where they can support tbemsodves hv raising vegetables and dairy products shows encouraging, though not very rapid progress in Britain. There are now 217,274 of such holdings, averaging two acres apiece, rented out by county councils in England and Wales. An official report issued in London on September 14 says the occupants “have so far weathered the present agricultural depression in a remarkable way, and m all parts ■ ot the country have been doing better ’ than the lurge farmers.'/ The report adds that in one oi the largest small-holding areas no less than 82 per cent, of the tenants have a clean slate with regard to rent. This, it is pointed out, is the more r<v tuarkablo for the fact that gc small holder is usually up tilde to obtain tho same credit facilities as the lnrgei farmer.. The areas of new land acquired Inst year by county councils for small holdings wa,s 7827 acres.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17953, 3 December 1932, Page 2
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