The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12,1892. Old Soldiers' Claims

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 62, 12 November 1892, Page 2

The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1892. Old Soldiers' Claims

By the Naval and Military Settlers and Volunteers Land Act 1892 passed last session of Parliament for the purpose of extending the time for which claims may be sent in under the Act of 1889, the following clauses have been added to the latter, (a). All persons who served in New Zealand and who retired from Her Majesty's Naval or Military Service with a good character for the purpose of settling in New Zealand at any time before the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, and who prior to such date have so settled and resided in any part of New Zealand; (b.) Also all persons who retired from Her Majesty's Naval and Military Service with a good character for the purpose of settling in New Zealand at any time before the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight; whether or not any law was in force within such part of New Zealand authorising grants of land to naval and military settlers on retiring from the service for the purpose of settling in New Zealand. Clause 4 extends the date for sending in claims in accordance with the above until the 31st March, 1893, and every claim under either the Act of 1889 or 1891 sent in to any Commissioner and rejected by him by virtue of the Act 1892. The Wanganui Herald says : — " As this is in all probability the final chance claimants will haye they should not neglect to take advantage of the Act, which was passed with a view of finally disposing of all valid claims against the colony under the provisions of the various acts by which Naval, Military, and Volunteer services entitled those rendering them to land grants. " We hope that the Feilding claimants will, for their own sakes, get all the necessary vouchers and papers in order without any unnecessary delay.