SOLDIER SETTLERS.
TRAINING FARM AT SOUTHBRIDGE. (PRESS ASSOCIATION* TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON. March 18. The Lands Department owns a block of 1200 acres at Southbridge, which is considered specially suitable for a soldiers' settlement, or, in the meantime, for a training farm for soldiers where they may acquire experience of agricultural methods. The Canterbury' Patriotic Society applied to the Government to have this land handed over for the purpose cr training soldier settlers for the term of the "war and, if necessary, for a short period afterwards. The proposal came before the Cabinet to-dav, and was agreed to. on the distinct venders tanding that when the war ends the land will be handed back for its original purpose, that of a soldiers' settlement.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16164, 19 March 1918, Page 7
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121SOLDIER SETTLERS. Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16164, 19 March 1918, Page 7
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