DRIFT TO TOWNS

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 433, 14 May 1937, Page 6

DRIFT TO TOWNS

Tendency Of Farmers’ Sons Pless Association —Copyright. Wellington, May 13. Concern at the present-day tendency of farmers’ sons to drift to the towns because there were no prospects Of their being able to settle on farms of their own, Wat' expressed by sever, al delegates at a meeting of t’ie Dominion executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union to-day. It was felt that the Governttieiit should assist financially so that these trained and experienced yblilig farnlers could obtain land of thJir own and thus remain in the industry in which they had been trained. Several speakers said that as the result of the depression farmers had no spare capital with which to give their boys a start oti farms of their own, and in many cases there was little prospect of their being able to do so in the near future.