NOVEL PROPOSAL.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, 23 August 1923, Page 6

NOVEL PROPOSAL.

LAND for immigrants. A novel proposal for supplying lanci to immigrants is made by a New Lealander in a Scott! n newspaper. He “Under the English Small Holdings Act, county councils can borrow large sums of money from the British Government to buy blocks of rural land which they cut up into three, four, and twenty acre sections, and sell to persons who desire to start poultry, bee, fruit, or dair> farming. The persons, buying these English sections pay for them on deferred payment. These holdings are a success. As, no similar Act pievails in New Zealand, I suggest that the county Councils be allowed to acquire large blocks of land in New Zealand near the railways and then cut them up into small holdings and settle specially selected dairy farmers from their own county on same, allowing immigrants 33?: years to pay for this land. “No doubt the machinery of the New Zealand municipal bodies and also county councils of New Zealand could be brought into play to help with this scheme. There is a great need of a small holding system here, ar- at present the New Zealand Government offers very little aid to the poor man to secure a small farm.”