SETTLEMENT OF SOLDIERS
—.— PLANS FOR NEXT FOUR YEARS
TOTAL EXPENDITURE OF £54,000,000 •P.A.) WELLINGTON, June 18. Definite plans have been prepared to settle 6000 former servicemen on the land within the next four years at the rate of 1500 a year. This information was given by the Minister of Rehabilitation (the Hon. C. F. Skinner), reporting to the Labour Party conference.
Of that total,’’ said Mr Skinner, “50 each year are to be settled on single farm units purchased through the State Advances Department, and 750 each year are to be settled on blocks of land purchased by the Lands Department for subdivision. On these subdivisions the erection of 700 dwellings other than farm buildings will be required each year. The cost of rehabilitating former servicemen on the land is approximately £6500 a settler, so that the total cost of this programme will amount to approximately £54,000.000.” The Minister said land worth nearly £4,500,000 had been acquired for soldier settlement in the last three years, with advances up to 100 per cent, of the value of the land, and 3000 returned men had already been settled. More than 250,000 acres were being developed at present, an effort that had never before been bettered.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24905, 19 June 1946, Page 6
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203SETTLEMENT OF SOLDIERS Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24905, 19 June 1946, Page 6
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