SOLDIER SETTLEMENT
THE ANNUAL REPORT REMISSIONS OF RENT AND INTEREST [From Our Parliamentary Reporter.] WELLINGTON, September 26. The Discharged Soldiers’ Settlement report, presented to the House, states that loans authorised during the year numbered 574,' involving a total of £99,028. The cash receipts for the year rose by £122,882. Lands set apart for selection by discharged soldiers totalled 3,857 acres, making a grand total of 1,452,525 acres proclaimed since the _ inception of the scheme. The area is made up as follows :—Ordinary Crown lands, 613,093 acres; land-for-settlements land, 402,544; national endowment land, 433,532; Cheviot Estate land, 3,356; total, 1,452,525 acres.
Applications for land under the Act to the number of eight only were received during the year, compared with 10 in the previous year, and the peak total of 5,396 in 1920. The Dominion Revaluation Board has made reductions in the capital value of leaseholds totalling £2,019,625, and in Crown Mortgages totalling £873,366, an aggregate of £2,892,991. Remissions of instalment interest and rent aggregate £472,375.
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Evening Star, Issue 22145, 27 September 1935, Page 17
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165SOLDIER SETTLEMENT Evening Star, Issue 22145, 27 September 1935, Page 17
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