LIMING OF LANDS.

Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17384, 21 April 1928, Page 4

LIMING OF LANDS.

PROPOSED AID FOR FARMERS. Mr Walter Guinness, Ihe British Minister of Agriculture, has informed Mr llaslam, Conservative M.P. for llorncastle, Lincolnshire, that further consideration is being given lo a proposal thai 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. Mr Guinness writes: "J have discussed with my advisers the suggestlion which you made to enable agricultural charges to be imposed, spread over a term of years, in respect of the provision of lime lo the land. If is a point which nerds 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 lo accept charges, but it would, of course, be for the banks to decide whether to make an advance in any particular case in respect of lime, and to spread the repayment over whatever period they might agree with their clients.