LAND FOR RETURNED SOLDIERS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 46, 18 November 1919, Page 7

LAND FOR RETURNED SOLDIERS

[■ A POINT EXPLAINED. ft was stated in an article'in last luesday's issue that a eoldier who has returned aJid has not received his dis- , charge is not able to apply for land under the Discharged Soldiers' Settlement Acts, nor to receive advances of money from tho Government to assist nun m taking up civil occupation. It is now pointed out that by section 7 of the Discharged Soldiers' Settlement . Amendment Act, 1919, it is provided that ■ all: persons who hiive served beyond the was as members of an Expeditionary Jjorco and Who, having returned to New Zealand have, for any reason, not been t •I'WlWi'KKl. from that fore, should Iμ entitled as if they were discharged solj diers within the meaning of the prin cipal Act to the advances provided bv 8 sections 2 and 3 of tho Discharged Sol „' Ji', e . r ? settlement Amendment Act. 1917. J 1 This means that although a returned m>! - J (her cannot apply .for land which ha-, •1 I l^ en ', s ?. t apart, tor selection bv dieelinrpJ ed soldiers under the principal Act, stiil )'. to .enable him to acquire anyj private fanning proposition, or up h i.-eiOM to assist him in the purchase of a - j'Biiitablo dwelling. Al?o that ho k «)i P . lble under section 3 of tlie Discharwi Soldiers' Settlement Act Amendment Acl I 1917,'t0 request the Government <o ac-t|«"-o a suitable property nnd allot it to him either for cash or on lease