SETTLING EX-SOLDIERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1920, Page 5

SETTLING EX-SOLDIERS.

BUYING FARMS AND HOMES. OVER NINE MILLIONS SPENT. By TelegraphPres? Association. Wellington, Last Night. Details of the amount spent to date upon returned soldiers by way of advances under the provisions of the Discharged Soldiers' Settlement Act were made available by the Minister for Lands. It was shown that 9132 applications had been approved, involving an expenditure of ,C 0,702,422. The main items are: Applications Amount, approved. n'• ' £ General improvements and stock 1420 720,(517 Purchase under section 2 of the * fee simple of private or Native lands .. 200S 4.250,177 Advances for purchase of Crown lands .. 5fi0,771 Purchase and erection of dwellings 4413 2,814,252 Discharge of mortgages on freehold and Crown sections 414 403,189 Improvements, stocking and purchase of chattels, etc 230 600,354

These figures, commented the Minister, were the best indication of the extent to which assistance was being granted for the repatriation of returned soldiers by placing them on land and in homes of their own;