SOLDIER SETTLEMENT SCHEME.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17117, 12 April 1921, Page 7

SOLDIER SETTLEMENT SCHEME.

.-?&? i .xs": 1^ —' —**"*—'' LATBBT tFiaUBBS. . WBUINQTON, April 11. fttert return showing ihe operaf the sbltfief settlement scheme that 8787 men have been set'thejand and 9200 men have sisted to purchase or town Js. The uiea of Jand occupied sdld ier hicrs is 2,7bd,b)il iho ,Oi\dnjdierfl' sections tnat had foicd, ana not at the WaiCjh v,qs ;jbß. ineso sections, total ai*Aot ,188,821 ocies, are ig availaule for civilian settloinder the decision recently an\by the Minister of Lands. The le is that sections loi which sol* ive not applied will bo held tor eeks alter the ballots, and then, littler applicants have come for* hoy wiU.be ottered to civilians. id. to bo offered to soldiers durii month of April comprises 83 'ujwitli a tdtal area ol 13,254 Tflie land available for future uon amounts to 504,663 acres. -i^lSt'gJ"" l Ws lantl-a total-of acres—is ill tho Otago land dis&t£sHEfr , oth ef *>&»s included in tho total are; North Auckland, f,.ffijl-2 acres, Auckland, 43,132 acresj ?<W3XL s>Ba X> 41j246 acres; Taranaki, ferSpracres.; Wellington, 7552 acres; &'»' 38,774 acres; Canterbury Southland, 482 acres. |'•feVJTO'Juandß Department reports that Ew S,, JS*J rf 4 06,046 acres—93,926 acres M&W TO North Island and 312.120 acres KBi&9£? ! P utn settlement. It comprises iS&Bot considered to be capable of affordM*w* * comfortable lmng to a disW *n«rged.«)ldier. fSE»M »oturn issued by the Repatriation jpspepartment states that since the inJs2?P tMm , « tber scheme 22,902 men have 6 " pi«oed m employment, 6858 have >■ v lg n g»™» training, and 27,279 haie I 2r Ml given finan cial assistance The paid out by the Department 7^mei ' #» "hfediiig of financial assisthM l) « ett £1.801,883. This includloans to the amount of £1,515,000, jJ-tWhich one-third has already been re- ' s*ii: *" c *°tal expenditure upon re- < r'fjWfratton has been £25,467,766, this mpurchase of estates, £5,761,248, for purchase of land, stock, l" 8£» und ? r »J«cnarged Soldiers Sett J& 6 *! mli'q*! 7,Bo *' 63s ' Re P» triatlon ft M