Land Settlement for Ex-Service Men 



settle on the land, but we want a much 

 larger proportion of the rising generation 

 to go in for an agricultural career. If our 

 present system of education is not calculated 

 to produce the type of citizen required, then 

 it must be altered. If the present general 

 conditions affecting agriculture are not 

 sufficiently favourable to attract men to the 

 land, then better conditions must be created. 

 If the consolidation of the Empire and of 

 the Kingdom demands a great increase in the 

 number of settlers on the land, then the 

 nation must take the necessary measures, 

 and be ready to advance large sums of 

 money to secure this end. It must behave 

 in no niggardly fashion. If it does, then the 

 whole movement will fail, and whatever 

 money is advanced will be lost. The nation 

 must realize that it is not performing an 

 act of charity, that it is not benefiting a 

 group of men, or developing one class of 

 citizen, at the cost of the ratepayer. Money 

 wisely spent on a sound land settlement 

 scheme is remunerative. The fact must 

 never be lost sight of that no scheme of land 

 settlement can be undertaken which is not 



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