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SUCCESS OF ITALIAN POLICY. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received March 27, midnight.) ROME, March 27. Fifty thousand Italians are now reclaiming swamp wasteland at the rate of 80,000 acres yearly, with a view to making Italy self-supporting, through the increase of small holdings, ranging from 60 to 100 acres apiece. When Signor Mussolini came into office he found the ruralists trekking townwards. He has not only stopped the movement, but has placed 1,000,000 new men on the land.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19759, 28 March 1934, Page 9
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83BACK TO THE LAND Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19759, 28 March 1934, Page 9
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