LAND SETTLEMENT
IN THE OLD COUNTRY OVER. 18,000 FAMILIES Under the land settlement scheme now under consideration by the British Government attention will be concentrated on holdings of the smaller type from three to five acres—and special encouragement is likely to be given to market gardening and poultry raising, particularly in the Midlands, the North, and ‘ around London, where local markets are available. . . It would be possible, with the
£4,000,000 proposed for Scotland and die minimum of £lO,000,000 for England and Wales, to settle more than. 18,000 families on the land. \ Experience of County Council schemes has shown that all types of smallholdings, even in difficult times, have proved successful, and in some cases tenants have purchased their holdings outright. On one of the Ministry’s smallholdings estates the most successful tenant is a former townsman.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIX, Issue 38, 7 February 1934, Page 3
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