REPATRIATION BOARD
MANY LOANS GRANTED
THE DIGGERS' SAWMILUNG COMPANY
The Hone. Sir William Fraser, ,D. If. Guthrie, and J. 6. Coates irere pre/sent at a meeting'of tho'Ministerial llcpatriation Board held yesterday; ■ A great deal of. business was transacted, including the passing of 137 loans to returned soldiers, totalling .£33,000. ._;/'
One outstanding case which" received a lcindly hearing was <i proposal i'roiii a dozen men-to form a.Diggers'. Sawmilling- Company to operate' on the -West Coast. It was decided to grant each of the- men a loan of .0300, and to arrange with the Forestry Department for the issue of a license' to - the company to cut timber over KM) acres of land idwut five "miles fronv Hokitika. This block, which contains from 9 to 12 million feet of good'white pine'timber,' has "been eagerly sought- by other" millers, but tho returned solders have been given. tho preference. The necessary 'plant "will cost the company £iWd. -An interesting fact' in connection with the Diggers', Company is that the men all belong to Hokitika, -and have known-' each other from boyhood, .upwards... ;Tlio, proposition is one -which had the hearty recommendation of the Hokitika Kcpatriation Committee.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 147, 17 March 1920, Page 3
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192REPATRIATION BOARD Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 147, 17 March 1920, Page 3
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