SOLDIERS' SETTLEMENTS.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16428, 23 January 1919, Page 6

SOLDIERS' SETTLEMENTS.

, • — PROTEST AGAINST REGULATIONS. (raESS ASSOCIATION TILECRAW.) HAWERA, January 22. ~ A meeting of the Returned Soldiers' Association, passed a motion protesting against the regulations in connexion with the Discharged Soldiers' Bottle-, 1 ment Act. It was considered that tho Act as passod by Parliament was satisfactory, and that tho officials wore / willing to do their best for the meu,. but regulations that had been added hindered efficient administration. The grounds of the soldiers' complaint are: (1) That with regard jfl advances on mortgages to assist re- •- turned soldiers the present application form requires thro} months' option.by j the owner to the ovplicant. consequsut- I ly it is only ,'n exceptional cases that , ! the intend i'ug buyer and seller can I a/Ford to v/ait. ;2) With regard to 1 advances under ''ill of sale security must be given not onlj for stock aba chattels on the Jium in respect of which the money is 11quired, but dlso' over all other (toe* ard chattels, pre- v. sent and future, of applicant. (3) ■ That all must at their own expense appear personal! v before the Board, entailing *ong distances of travel and .'ays i<jst time, only «»Ui tho prospect, not tho Assurance, of success. (4) 'Slat • onti Boardt> n.eet : only monthly, and npjru'htjoiui miisiiig : the current niontii'j rroetmg aie illl- - for a nontli. (5) Ail aj p'ito* ' tions require fch» upj.-rovni of the M>uister of Lands, meaning lurtlior dotiiv, especially uo tiiooc 'ivmg f:»r from the centres. The meeting WmiMtr.-d vhe conditions altogether unnecessary, «nJ thought that ioeai 'ioarda, roiisining t» commercial ind farm lup men, < -mi-l be. established n au tlie smaller to overcome th-i pic-si-rct « .i»io of time .