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Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1925, Page 2

three millions sterling, will be lost to the general taxpayer. This amount certainly is much smaller than might have been expected, and cannot with any accuracy he described as a loss. It is. as the Minister lux said, the cost of repatriation, and may fairly he called an excellent national investment. The money lias been well spent in reestablishing soldier- in < ml IiI«•. and nowhere to greater advantage than in placing on the land tlnai-ands o! settlers. many of whom were without previous experience of farming. Taking fair account of this factor of inexperience and of the conditions of boom and -lump through which the Dominion has passed since the soldier «et-

■tlomeiit scheme was launched, 'the present state of this enterprise must he regarded is one of remarkable success. There are problems yet to he overcome in regrouping some of the settlement lands and In providing further advances where they are warranted, hut in the account of the position given by the Minister of hands there are encouraging assurances that these problems are in hand and that their id timate solution is not in doubt.