HOMES FOR SOLDIERS

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 1, 26 September 1921, Page 9

HOMES FOR SOLDIERS

QUESTION OF A SECOND ADVANCE

The Dominion Council of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association recently wrote to the Minister of Lands, intimating that they were of opinion that when a soldier holding a loan under the Discharged Soldiers’ Settlement Act on his house, was removed or transferred to another town and repaid such loan after the sale of his house, the amount so repaid should be available for a fresh advance to him for the pudchase of a house in his new place. The Minister replied that the request could not te complied with; the soldier h%d already been assisted, and if he sold his property he must take his place among those awaiting loans, and must likewise conform to the conditions obtaining nt tho time of his second application. At tho present time advances could only te obtained for the erection of dwellings. The matter was cP net de red by the executive of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association on Saturday. Mr. J. D. Fortes thought that returned soldiers who were public servants and were transferred to another town were under a great hardship. Mr. T. W. M'Donald agreed, and said that, it was hard on any returned soldier who was transferred by his employer, and had no control over the situation.

Mr. W. E. Leadley remarked that in some cases mon who sold their houses made so much that they did not need to go to the Government again. He thought that they should be satisfied with tho Minister’s reply, and concentrate their attention on larger matters. If they only dealt with smaller things the Government in these days of financial stringency would grant them instead of conceding the larger demands. Mr. N. A. Vercoe considered that tho Minister had agreed to the spirit of the resolution forwarded to him. It was decided to accept the reply.