VISITOR'S CRITICISM
STATE LAND SCHEME PAYING WAGES TO FARMERS “ I am not enamoured of your Government’s schema here for placine men on farms and paying them wages," said Canon P. P. S. Hammond. Australian land settlement authority, who arrived In Hamilton yesterday. Canon Hammond contends that the goal to be aimed at is farm or home ownership and not tenancy in any form, and it is that idea which he put into practice in his own settlement near Sydney. He states that there the opportunity provided to settlers of enioylng an assured future in a home of I their own has had a most stimulatj ing effect upon those so assisted. Regarding the State housing pro- ; jects, he w-as also critical, considering | the rentals asked for much too high ! for the class of people who had most : need of them. As on the farms, the aim should be to make hemes available through purchase over a« short a period as possible. As things were at present a large proportion of the population seemed fated to pay rent all their lives.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20426, 17 February 1938, Page 10
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