LIMING OF LANDS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20151, 21 May 1928, Page 2

LIMING OF LANDS

PROPOSED AID FOR FARMERS. Air Walter Guinness, the British Alinister of Agriculture, has informed Mr Haslam, Conservative AI.P. for Horncastle, Lincolnshire, that further consideration is being given to a proposal that in the Agricultural Credits Bill provision should be made to enable farmers to spread over a term of years the cost of liming their land. Air Guinness writes: “I have discussed with my advisers the suggestion which you made to enable agricultural charges to be imposed, spread over a term of years, in respect of the provision of lime to the land. It is a point which needs further consideration, but our proposals for agricultural credit give the farmer a means of borrowing on the security of his farming stock and agricultural assets. Tenant right is included among the assets on which it is proposed to empower banks to accept charges, but it would, of course, be for the banks to decide whether to make an advance in any particular case in re-spec?; of lime, and to spread the repayment over whatever period they might agree with their clients.