FARMS FOR SOLDIER SETTLERS

Southland Times, Issue 24875, 15 October 1942, Page 4

FARMS FOR SOLDIER SETTLERS

Sir Robert Anderson’s Gift (Special) WELLINGTON, Oct. 14. A gift of 600 acres to the Crown by the late Sir Robert Anderson for discharged soldier settlement farms is the subject of special provision in the Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Bill, which was introduced in the House of Representatives this afternoon ana read a first time. The Bill declares the land to be subject in all respects to the provisions oi the Small Farms Act 1932-33, and may be disposed of by way of lease to discharged soldiers as defined by mat Act, and who before the present war were ordinarily resident in the Southland land district. Provision is made for the establishment of a board, to be known as the Anderson Trust Board to administer a trust account relating to the farms to be allotted to returned soldiers. Its personnel will consist or the Commissioner of Crown Lands in Southland, who will be chairman, and two other persons appointed by tne Minister of Lands to hold office during his pleasure and who will, it the donor so requires, be appointed on nis recommendation or of any other person or body whom the donor may from time to time appoint. The board may apply trust moneys held by it for the purpose of making grants to or for the benefit of widows or orphans or of making grants to or for the benefit of the wives and children of servicemen who are mental patients.

The property referred to is at Dipton, where Sir Robert Anderson had established a stud of Southdown sheep.