SMALL FARM SCHEME
COMPULSORY PURCHASE (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. In a. question io the House of Representatives yesterday, Mr. T, D. Burnett (Goal., Temuka) asked whether in view of the growing demand in South Gunter bury for small holdings of from 20 to 50 acres, and the marked disinclination among owners to release areas tinder the Small Farms (Relief of Unemployment) Act, what steps the Government proposed to take in the matter. The I lon. hi. A. Ransom said that the Government would give consideration to the necessity of bringing the compulsory provisions of the Act into operation and, if necessary, would purchase lands instead of proceeding by way of lease.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18205, 28 September 1933, Page 4
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113SMALL FARM SCHEME Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18205, 28 September 1933, Page 4
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