RURAL IRELAND.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14307, 1 June 1914, Page 4

RURAL IRELAND.

AN INTERESTING REPORT. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) London, May ao. The report of the committee of flic Department of Agriculture on technical educatioh in Ireland sta'os that the mortgage indebtedness em Irish laud is probably increasing two mi lions annually. Moneylenders have great.y increased, whilst the gobesn man lias almost disappeared. Injurious amounts of long creelit with shops were found in various districts, much of ,it doing for feeding . stuffs, which He farmer co.dd himself grow. The savings of the rural clas.,es, amounting to many mi.lions, have been withdrawn from productive use locally, and transferred for invastment in London. The icporl adds that assistance to the economic progress of rural Ireland would be jiossiblc if only part of this money was available for lending to sina l fanners.