RETURNED MAN’S TALE OF ILL-LUCK
A SERIES OF FLOODS PETITION FOR LOAN (THE SUN’S Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. A request for a loan of £250 is contained in a petition of an ex-soldier, Frederick Charles Murdoch, of Hamilton, which was brought before Parliament to-day by Mr. K. S. Williams. Murdoch states that after being invalided home he took up land under the Returned Soldiers’ Settlement Act, at Ngatapa. in 1917. During his first year the farm was flooded nine times, and silt covered all the feed. Floods recurred during the whole of his eight years’ occupancy, and after getting heavily into debt he was compelled to give up farming. Owing to a war injury to his legs he is now unable to walk far, and desires to borrow £250 to set up a mechanical repair shop.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 107, 27 July 1927, Page 16
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136RETURNED MAN’S TALE OF ILL-LUCK Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 107, 27 July 1927, Page 16
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