The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1915. AN URGENT PROBLEM.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 64, 15 July 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1915. AN URGENT PROBLEM.

A problem that we shall soon have to face in New Zealand, in common with other overseas States that have sent contingents to the war, will be how best we may serve the returued troopers in making their living in the future. "The crippled and seriously wounded will bo the special problem." a Sydney newspaper writer explains. "The general problem will be how to | deal with able-bodied soldiers who have lived a life of daring and desperate adventure in the field. The Govern-' ment of New South Wales has decided to give returned soldiers preference over other applicants in taking up' selections on an area of 2-50,000 acres which is to be reserved for that pur-l pose. If the land is of good quality, if it is made accessible by railways, and if the right class of men are settled upon it. success will be assured." The argument is a fairly reasonable one, and it has already been suggested that many of our young .soldiers might be placed on the land with special assistance from the Government. It is hard to say how many New Zealand will have to find suitable places lor, but Australia reckons that'quite one hundred thousand men will return to the Commonwealth, and a considerable proportion of this number will be incapacitated from following their old callings by reason of injuries received in battle. The work of campaigning will certainly lit some for a life on the land who possibly other-

wise would never have thought ol following farming, find there is therelore a chance for Parliament to consider the question from a practicable standpoint.