PLUNDERING THE LAND
“Ordinary townsmen have come to look upon the land as something to be plundered,” said Mr P. R. Morris, Director of Education for Kent, England, when he presented the certificates and awards at the annual prizegiving of Kent Farm Institute. “The land is our most important national asset,” he continued, “and it has to be used temperately so that it is not plundered.” What was thought of agriculture in the towns was probably of more importance that what was thought of agriculture in the country. Therefore, the students must seek every available opportunity to testify to what they had learned at the Institute, so that the larger part of the population might realize that the conservation and use of the soil was man’s highest occupation,
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Southland Times, Issue 23998, 13 December 1939, Page 21
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128PLUNDERING THE LAND Southland Times, Issue 23998, 13 December 1939, Page 21
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