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Colonist homes. 



1920 been established in every district the so-called Land Com- 

 mittees^ i.e., locally elected committees of 3 members, which are to have 

 charge of the work of new-cultivation in the district. 



The Land Committee is elected by the District Council after the 

 farmers' unions and smallholders' unions within the district have been 

 requested to suggest members for election to the committee. The Land 

 Committee shall employ one or, if necessary, several men to plan and 

 control the execution of Land-cultivation operations in the district. The 

 District Council is to decide whether the members of the committee are 

 to receive remuneration for their work and, if so, the amount of the 

 remuneration. The expenses of the committee's work are paid by the 

 local authority against refundment of one half of the amount by the 

 State. 



The Land Committees deal as the first instance with all applications 

 for grants or loans for land-cultivation and colonisation, but also other 

 measures for promoting the better utilisation and working of the land 

 come within the sphere of acitivity of these committees, such as, for 

 example, arrangements for the better collection and treatment of animal 

 manure, for the better utilisation of the grazing-runs, for the com- 

 bating of weeds etc. 



From the Land Committee the matters go to the County Agricultural 

 Societies, which, as already stated, are the immediate superiors of the 

 committees. The agricultural societies summarily dispose of some of the 



