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HIGH PRICE OF LAND. "Will the Minister for Lands give returned soldiers who wish to take up farms an assurance that by putting oil doing so for a period of two years they will not prejudice their receiving such Government assistance as is now granted," asked Mr. R. McCalluin (Wairau), in the House of Representatives on Friday, He also suggested that if such an assurance was giveu it would have a steadying effect on the price of land, which, it was well known, was becoming so high as to be positively ruinous. The Hon. D. H| Guthrie said t*at he was quite alive to the importance of the matter. It was not the first time H had been brought before those connected with the repatriation of soldiers. The position at the present time was' that no man was denied by law the right to acquire land, and there was no limit as to the time within which they should exercise that riglrt. That was a matter for future legislation; and any man' could put off exercising -his right if he liked to take the risk of what Parliament might do in the future. There had been cases where men who contemplated marriage and so on had been anxious to take up houses later, and had put to him a similar question. He had pointed out to them that under present legislation there was no danger of their losing their opportunity, even if they did not apply immediately.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1919, Page 2
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249POSITIVELY RUINOUS. Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1919, Page 2
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