LAND FOR SOLDIERS.
; '.VI-TAT HAS BEEN DONE i'RIME MINISTER'S STATEMENT j The Prime Minister, the Right Hon. •A". F. Massey, takes a very keen interest ir. the great problem of settling returned srhiiers on the land, and speaking to a representative of the Christchurch Press, he gave some interesting details of what had been done in this direction. lie stated that up to the end of the year j ">oi soldiers had been settled under the Discharged Soldiers' Acts, and. under all ' Uis, total of 599 up to December .11. , Advances had been made for improvo.nents and stocking totalling £lfil,2(ls. The areas of land formally proclaimed | in both the Ncrtli and South Islands ' were as follow:Acres. , j Auckland 73.55S TTawke's Bay Tfi.OfiS Taranaki 0,4(13 Wellington 72,909 J NelsoiL 10,133 t Marlborough 8,082 West land B,fi l 0 Canterbury (53.547 ' 01 ago 44.163 Southland fi.lill P Totals "79,<87 , The -.uotliods under which Ihe present , holders of land obtained their holdings _ was as follows:—Under the Discharged Soldiers' Settlement Act. .501; discharged soldiers at ballots, 15; by transC fer (including transfers to wives), 25; j Members of Expeditionary force, including wives, SS. a total of 599.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19180121.2.43
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, 21 January 1918, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
193LAND FOR SOLDIERS. Taranaki Daily News, 21 January 1918, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in