India
LAND GRANTS FOR SOLDIERS. PROGRESSIVE SCHEME IN PUNJAUB. Received 13, 5.5 p.m. Delhi, December 12. For years, it has been the practice of the Government to reward deserving Indian military pensioners with grants of valuable land in the Punjaub. and Canal colonies, where extensive irrigation has brought into cultivation enormous areas of new land, for which there is keen competition. Recently the Punjaub Government, with the approval of the Government of India, have in the latest colony decided to increase the allotment of 103,000 acres, reserved for army pensioners, to 178,000. Grants will be ma<! • at the end of the year of the additional part of 103,000, which will be as rewards for services in the present war. The additional 75,000 acres will bo specially reserved for this purpose, and will be granted to Indians distinguishing themselves in the present campaign, or their heirs. The policy will meet with the widest approval in the Punjaub, which is the best recruiting ground for the Indian army.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 161, 14 December 1914, Page 5
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