ADVANCES TO SETTLERS ACT.
ON all sides we hear of the greater facilities offered to settlers by the officers of the Advances to Settlers Department. Now the administration has been brought to such a stage that a case is recorded of a settler in the Wairarapa who received an advance on his property within one week of his sending in the application for the loan. We have no reason. to believe that this man was favored either by fortune or by surrounding influences ; on the contrary, it would appear that " pressure from without" in, the shape of rival cheap money — caused in some degree by the Act itself — has made it compulsory on the officers of the Department to rid themselves of the red tape with which, in the early days of the Bystem, they allowed themselves to be so much hampered.
We are informed by the Mayor, Mr Walter A. L. Bailey, that the meeting of burgesses called for this evening in the Volunteer Drill Hall at 8 o'clock, will be formally adjourned until Wednesday, the 27th instant, at the same hour and place. _____________
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 272, 22 May 1896, Page 2
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