USE OF VACANT LAND.
CULTTTATORS TO HAVE A CLEAR YEAR TO OBOW FOOD. An official of -the Board of Agricul- • ture speaking to a representative of j tho I,ondr.n 'Daily Mail'' on the j compulsory acquisition of vacant land; fvir food growing, said thjii the i:ee of 1 , the- lund would bo for any : other purpose than the growth of an- , urw-il vocables. Such crops as rhubarb or -trauherries will not be al- ' lowed, nor will it ho permissible to us* flu? land for grazing. The cultivators will get no compensation for di~furl>anco unless they bar© to bo turned off the plots before Jana- < ary 1, IL'IS. This v. ill pive them ft 1 clear vear to grow food, fhe sdrninifi- ; ♦.•ration of the plot*, is being turned \ over by the board to the- local author)- • tics, who hare been told *hat the Rovf-1 Horticultural Society has offered" all the assistance in their'power, and hare been recommended to consuls , local experts. " I think there will be a great deal of vacant, land acquired," said the official. "Bristol people are anxious to go ahead at once; so h the London Vacant Lots Society. It ie said that there are about 13,000 acres of vacant building land in the County of Lou* dan." -" - ■ * -*
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11926, 8 February 1917, Page 4
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