LAND SETTLEMENT.
CONFERENCE AT WELLINGTON t FUTURE POLICY WELLINGTON, March 12. Under the auspices of the New Zealand Land Settlement and Development League and the Dominion Settlement .Association of Wellington a conference on land settlement and migration pro blems was opened to-day. Mr A. Leigh Hunt was voted to rho chair. Among those present were: Mr R. H. Jenkins M.P., Mr C. Macmillan M.P., Mr H. D. Dickie M.P., and Mr H. D. Thompson (Secretary to the Immigration Departs meat.)
The following resolutions were pass ed:: That the land settlement policy of the future should be confined largo ly to opening up new lands at present bringing in no revenue; that in addition to Government effort private ctoterpri«e be given every encouragement and facility, including the removal of the land tax, to undertake the break-ing-in of second-class lands for the purpose of making them available for close settlement; lhat in the opinion of this conference the time has arrived for a national movement to place land settlement on a sound) basis. The conference approved of the policy of the Minister of Education that primary education be given a bias towards agriculture and expressed the opinion that boys should complete their training in the service of a practical farmer.— (P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 13 March 1929, Page 5
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