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A ?$?A?A? IBBIGA ?IO17 well as for any improvements made by the tenant. A special feature of the scheme is that every settler has a statutory right to a minimum volume of water, the number of water rights or acre-feet being specified at the time of allotment of holdings. There are also, of course, certain very reasonable obligations imposed on settlers, such as spending from their own capital a certain sum per acre on permanent improvement? within two or three years. State Assistancz Not only does the riding a cheap and assured supply of rentals and payments on easy terms, S?te help the farmer by pro- water, by low but it also comes forward to offer assistance, practical and liberal to the utmost degree. The settler may have his house and farm buildings erected by the State, or if desires to do the building himself, materials may supplied to him through State agency assistance may be given to enable permanent irrigation' works, and carry purposes on' his out holding. repayment are exceedingly light and over ten or twelve years. Fencing posts, fruit trees and vines, lucerne and other seeds, dairy stock, pedigree bulls, machinery and implements, guaranteed true to name and quality, may be purchased or hired on easy terms. Provision has also been made fo? advances by leasehold. in fares inspect or the Government, Savings Bank for other legitimate purposes on the The State also offers and freight to intending settle with their families For actual development and he be and financial him to construct grading work for The terms of may be spread tries the Government has established model factories for butter and cheese making, vegetable and ?r?i? agrioultural and mortgage of the railway concessions settlers going to and belongings. encouragement of indus-