APPLICANTS FOR LAND

Taranaki Daily News, 27 May 1933, Page 9

APPLICANTS FOR LAND

EMPLOYED AND UNEMPLOYED. EQUAL CHANCE FOR SMALL FARMS. That equal opportunity should be given to all worker applicants for lan,d, whether employed or unemployed, was the text of a motion carried by the provincial conference of the Farmers’ Union at Inglewood yesterday. - Moving the remit, Mr. J. Wood said an essential of the small farm scheme was that the applicant must be a relief worker. Because a man in the backblocks had kept his job it should be no bar to his applying for that land, especially as he might be a better farmer than the applicant. It should be a condition, however, that when a man obtained such a section he should at once give up his job, which would then, be open for an unemployed man. If the right men were placed in these sections it would help to solve the ragwort menace.

Mr. A. M. Kain considered that the men who had, helped himself should be helped first. There were many men who had struggled on instead of registering as unemployed. Replying to a question, Mr. Wood said that under the scheme money would be advanced for the stock and buildings out of the unemployment fund. Mr. R. Corry said the scheme would assist the unemployed by providing a job for an unemployed man.