IMPROVED FARM SETTLEMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 577, 4 August 1909, Page 5

IMPROVED FARM SETTLEMENTS.

NO PREFERENCE TO EX-C1V1L,.,.. SERVANTS.I ' With regard to' tho 400 sections, which ■; aro to bo opened for selection under tho | Improved . Farm 'Settlements Act, a Dominion reporter yesterday inquired from tho. Hon. D. Buddo (Acting-Minister for Lands) if it were'true that preference was to ;be given at . tho ballot to, ex-Civil Ser-. va'nts. .'•• ," ■ ;"v ' In-reply, Mr. , Buddo said that tliete need be,n6;'misiindei'staiidiiig on the'point;.'' He,, wished to - rnako' it .clear that there would be no , discrimination betweon the applicants. -'r]\o only qualification was, that riiust bo landless.' He went, on to say ,that tlio posters giving full, particulars of the sections in the Wellington Province ,■ would ~ bo available either, at, tho.'end of tho present month 'or 'at "tho beginning of next month. It'was'.important to lioto tliiit . the clause ill. .the regulations with regard to transfer.,would ;givo. land boards, full power to. refnse, any • application for transfer. Beforo the, board would grant a transfer lit had to be fully satisfied that there. , v was. a good and.t substantial reason for transferring,; and that . no profit was being made out of the action.' There would also probably be . a 'clause.stating'a period of years within which any transfer would not bo allowed. 1 ,