LAND FOR SOLDIERS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2853, 18 August 1916, Page 8

LAND FOR SOLDIERS

.. , Arrangements for settling returned • . soldiers on various areas of land re--1 : oently acquired under the soldiers' '• land setSsment sclieme, aro now being • carried out'by the Lands Department, , -. which is under tho, control of tlio Prime Minister, as Minister of Lands {says the "New Zealand Herald"). 'Amongst tho areas lately purchased is 'i- one near Morrinsville, and another near Waerenga. The Department is " also about to call for tenders for '' ploughing 500 acres of the - Swanson ] V kauri gum reserve, which it is intended to planf with apple trees, and sub- •„ divide' it into sections of a size suitable for the requirements of returned . soldiers. The land will be allowed to Uo fallow during the coming summer, • and it will be planted next winter with ' apple trees of' selected varieties, suitable for export. A voto of £500 for \ the purpose of ploughing and preparthe: land was provided.on the' Sup: plomentary Estimates of the late session. - We note with interest that all the best ~.. .. prizes for cheese at the Palmerston Show and the best prices in the London mar- . ket were obtained by : those makers 'who use Victor Vats. These famous vats embody a new principle of middle drainage . —worth while investigating.., A. J. Parton, . Dairyman, Carterton.—Advt.