HOMES FOR SOLDIERS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3641, 30 November 1920, Page 4

HOMES FOR SOLDIERS.

WELLINGTON, This Day. An offer has been made by Mr. P. Nathan to the Wellington Returned Soldiers' Association,, of a block of 137 acres of land close to Petone, for soldiers' homes, at £2OO per acre. The land is worth far more, some of it having been sold at £BOO- per acre, and the Association, at a meeting to consider the offer, thought it a very generous one. Mr. Nathan agreed to let them have it by parcel as the men" ' could take it up, and did insist on the whole block being purchased at once. The meeting decided to obtain a report within ten days', showing what sum each applicant would have to find, j Various suggestions were made as to building material, etc., and it was I stated amongst other things that a party of eleven men were prepared to erect a factory on the site and build houses at the lowest price.