EMIGRATION PLANS
NEW ZEALAND COMPANY LORD BLEDISLOE’S IDEAS DOMINION’S POTENTIALITY FERTILITY OF THE SOIL By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 11.30 p.m. London, Sept. 2. Viscount Bledisloe, former GovernorGeneral of New Zealand, in a letter in the Times, extols the agricultural possibilities of New Zealand, particularly of the pumice lands, and points out the developmental capabilities of large areas of potentially fertile soil. He cites instances of holdings which eclipse Jesse Colling’s “Three acres and a cow,” by carrying a cow in addition to sheep, pigs and horses to the acre. He advocates, with the Dominion’s concurrence, the establishment of a Royal Commission of scientific and exploratory scope before which he would gladly give evidence. He also suggests the formation of a statutory company, comparable with Edward Gibbon Wakefield’s New Zealand Company, with a capital of £5,000,000, to pay at least part of the emigrants’ passages and to subsidise the equipment of holdings.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1935, Page 7
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