FREEHOLD FARMS
PROVISION LACKING
SOLDIER SETTLEMENT
Although the returned servicemen asked the Government for the Land Sales Bill, the Act as passed by Parliament was very different from the original draft, said Mr. C. O. Bell, vice-president of the New Zealand Returned Servicemen's ' Association, when outlining the R.S.A. attitude to this legislation before the annual conference of war amputees at Wellington today. * . Following the R.S.A. conference m May,' Mr. Bell said, the Government was urged to introduce legislation enabling a serviceman to secure a house at an economic value and a farm at a productive value, with a freehold tenure. "Something had to be done," he" said. "We could not allow the position to go on as it did last time. There is no doubt that after the last war the people did take the soldiers down —not deliberately perhaps, but the circum-
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 54, 1 September 1943, Page 6
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143FREEHOLD FARMS Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 54, 1 September 1943, Page 6
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