LAND FOR SOLDIERS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2715, 9 March 1916, Page 7

LAND FOR SOLDIERS

— i— THE GOVERNMENT'S SCHEME. The Prime Minister was asked yesterday whether he had heard anything from the Imperial Government of tl/0. scheme mentioned in yesterday's cable news for the settlement of British soU diers on land iu the Dominions. "Nothing official has reached me in regard to it," said Mr. Massey. "I may say, however, that from the; men of our own forces we are now getting a good nmnber of inquiries about land! It seems to me that returned. soldiers are not generally inclined to settle down and go on to land at once, but I thinlc, judging' by what has taken place, up till now, a large number of soldiers will tako advantage of the ar. yangements the Government is making for settling them on the land. In nearly every caso the men applying aro men who have had previous experience in country life. '"To-<lay I had an' application from _n young New Zealander who enlisted in Melbourne, served with the Commonwealth forces, and came back to Australia bounded. He now wantstosettle in bin own country. Though it is nol exactly what was contemplated when our Act was passed, I am endeavouring to make arrangements to' give him his opportunity to take up land here."