SOLDIERS ON THE LAND

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3137, 16 July 1917, Page 4

SOLDIERS ON THE LAND

SOME WANTS VENTILATED: (By Telegraph—Special Correspondent.) Marton, July 15. At a meeting of tho Rangitikei Patriotic Society a deputation from tho Returned Soldiers' Association asked that tho eooiety should ninko representations to the Government that men should rot bo put on their sections between, seasons, and that -when, vouchers wero passed for payment tho money should be availablo at tho post office within three days. Bills that had been passed for payment eight months ago had not yet been paid. They asked that a local trustee' bo appointed as supervisor, and that an amount in excess of w£soo should lie paid if necessary to start the nen on tho land. Tho sum of .£SOO vms not considered sufficient in the present state of the markets. Mr. Thompson, ono of tho deputation, stated that tho Lands Department w*e anxious to put the returned men on bush land, but ten per cent, of tho men ivlio had returned wero unfit to go on bush

land. They wero only fit for open country and partly cultivated land. If returned men wero medically fit, tho Terence authorities saw that they went tc the front again. Tho Patriotic Society lias framed certain resolutions to placo before the Government.