MOSTLY FAILURES

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 996, 12 June 1930, Page 16

MOSTLY FAILURES

EX-SERVICEMEN’S POULTRY VENTURES HOUSING RELIEF BEST Poultry-farming: ventures, into which ex-servicemen have been financed by the Auckland Patriotic and War Relief Association, have largely turned out to be failures, according to a statement to the executive yesterday. How assisted men were faring was raised in considering a report which stated that since the inception of the Permanently Disabled Soldiers’ Scheme 530 men had been voted assistance amounting to £108,614. All the grantees were suffering from permanent war disability to the extent of 40 per cent, and upward. The acting-chairman, Mr. V. J. Larner, said that scarcely any of the assisted men had succeeded in the poultry business. Only one man, who was now applying for assistance, had “made a do’’ of it, and good reports had been received of him from Hawke’s Bay. Failure had also been the chief result of the money ex-servicemen had invested in bee-farming. It was stated that not 10 per cent, of those men, who had been financed into such ventures, had succeeded. The best work that could be done toward relief was to assist them in housing. In most cases where money -was provided for farming ventures practically all had been failures.