THE SMALL FARM PLAN.

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18703, 1 August 1932, Page 12

THE SMALL FARM PLAN.

POSITION OF SHARE MILKERS. With the .object of discussing certain essential points of procedure Affecting the small farm plan for the relief of unemployment and of arriving at a uniform basis for dealing ■with the numerous points that have arisen concerning the scheme a conference was held in Wellington between field officers of the Department of Agriculture from various parts of the Dominion. Until this preliminary work had been carried out it was thought desirable to suspend for a brief poriod certain proposed activities. Arrangements have now been made with the share-milking part of the plan, and all applications concerning this section of the scheme will be speedily dealt with. Field offloers of the department report that the number of offers of land and the terms of the offers had been reasonably satisfactory. and that a very large number of applications from those desiring to bo helped had come to hand. It was anticipated that no difficulty would bo experienced In selecting from the applicants men who, especially by reason of previous experience, will bo entirely suitable for farming the areas available. When all the arrangements 'connected with the small farm'plan are completed, It Is stated, it Is confidently anticipated a largo number of applicants will ho able to improve their present position. The number of men who can be placed under the plan, either on small holdings of about ten acres or on the share-milking side of the scheme, will be determined by the finance available from the Unemployment Fund* ■ _