SOLDIER SETTLERS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9796, 20 October 1917, Page 7

SOLDIER SETTLERS

PAYMENT OF RENT

‘ 1 Every soldier settler is expected pay the rent on the land anottecl jo him; and, in most oases, does so, stated the Prime Minister yesterday in a printed reply to a question put in Parliament by Mr C. J. Parr, M.P. lor Eden, “It, however, he is financially unable to pay, assistance may bo. and has been, given, either by way of postponement of payment or remission for such period as is desirable. Eadh case is treated stnotly on its merits by Land Board aocordto the nature of the land and the jircumstances of the settler, and in ill cases the recommendation of tno Land Board receives my sympathetic consideration. The first payment » highly desirable, as it proves the bona tujs of the settler. If land is allotted and no payment made, should the settler not proceed further with h’s selection and not intimate his intension of abandoning it, the Band Board is prevented from dealing with the Sand for some considerable time, whilst no use is being made of it. experience has shown that payment of tho first half-year’s rent is a proof ot tho soldier’s serious intention to become a settler,”