In four years 1,000,000 acres of land previously farmed had beori given up and was not now in use, and in (ho Dominion more than 4,000,000 acres of land was carrying a second growth of scrub and fern, said Colonel 8. J. E. Close?, Dominion organiser for the compensatod-prico campaign, in an address in Christchurch. The value of all this land was now loss than zero, ho added. It was idle because, from high costs, no farmer thought ho could Work it profitably. Eventually, such a quantity of land out of use must cause a serious crisis, he said.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 207, 2 August 1937, Page 5
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