THE TEN-ACRE PLAN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 178, 30 July 1932, Page 13 (Supplement)

THE TEN-ACRE PLAN

The Department of Agriculture is justified in speaking as sharply as it does of the criticism that has been directed against the ten-acre plan for the relief of the unemployed. The Government was entitled to expect a better reception than the scheme has been given, but unfortunately for New Zealand the habit of objection and grumbling has been developed by adversity. That the

scheme is open to abuse and attended by many difficulties is as plain as Mount Eden on the Auckland landscape, but if men are always deterred by difficulties and dangers nothing will be done. As the department points out, among the unemployed arc numbers of land workers, and farms are being retarded for want of labour. The. ten acre plan is one to help the unemployed and the fanner at the same time, go surely it deserves success. On only one point would we. criticise the depart-

merit's circular. It denies that th’ plan is for clerks; quite properly, n< doubt, in the circumstances, these allot moots are being reserved for men witl land experience. It would however, b<

flying in the face of common sense ami experience to suppose that city workers cannot be expected to succeed on the land. Numbers of our pioneers were town bred, and in every generation men brought up in our own cities have succeeded as farmers. It depends not so much upon the man’s environ meat as upon the man's brain and grit. -Auckland Star.