DIFFERING RESULTS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 15, 16 October 1945, Page 4

DIFFERING RESULTS

SERVICEMEN APPLICANTS BALLOTS FOR FARMS There were strikingly different results when four farm settlements were recently offered by ballot to ex-sevicemen farmers graded "A" by their Rehabilitation Farming Sub-Committees, says a statement I'rofri the Rehabilitation Department. For two of the settlements each capable of sub-division into two sections there were 29 and 39 applications respectively. For the other two settlements, also to be sub-divided into two sections* each, there were no servicemen applicants to come forward. Both of the settlements for which applications were heavy were to be offered on a wages basis until necessary develop, ment work was completed. Following that the successful applicants are to be given first option either of a renewable lease or agreement for sale or purchase. One; was the Te Mapai settlement about 12 miles from Masterton two sections being offered l'or Grade "A" Sheepfarmers. The. other was the Otakiri Settlement near Edgccumbe to be divided into two dairy sections. The properties for which there were no ap. plications were in the South Island. on the Portobello-Cape Saunders Road, near Dunedin was a grazing ami fattening-, proposition, and the other comprised two sections for sheep farming near Wynd_ ham Southland. Both were offered on a leasehold basis. At a recent meeting of the Rehabilitation Board it was stated that of 274 ex-servicemen of this war who bad taken up Crown lands;, approximately 90 odd had taken a renewable lease, 90 an agreement for Sale or Purchase (or Bryant Tenure) and 90 were being employed on a wages or share basis and as y£t it w r as uncertain which form of tenure they would elect to eventually take.