SETTLING SOLDIERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 April 1920, Page 5

SETTLING SOLDIERS.

41,380 MEN ASSISTED . AMOUNT INVOLVED £16,000,000. (By Telegraph.—SpEWal Reporter.) Inglewood, Last Niglit. Impressive figures showing the extent to which the Government had repatriated the returned soldiers of the Dominion were quoted by the Hon- D. H. Guthrie, Minister in charge of Soldiers' Settlements, and chairman of the Ministerial Repatriation Board, at to-night'r> dinner to colcjirate the formation of the new Inglewood County. The Minister stated that amongst the many important matters arising out of the war demanding serious attention was the repatriation of the soldiers. Over 100.0011 men from New Zealand had served overseas, and of the number re(urned demobilisation cards had been issued to 77,3(i5. Employment, had been 1 ound for 10.000, 4000 had been placed in new occupations, while financial assistance had been granted to 11,439, amounting to £006,244. Besides the work of the Repatriation Department the. Lands Department had settled 0.402 men on farms at an outlav of .-CIO.STfi.B34, and 034!) in town dwellings at an outlay of £4,137.05(1, and altogether 44,380 had been assisted bv the . iwo departments, involving about .-e 10,000,000. In addition to the figures mentioned private estate? totalling 210,000 acres, which were being prepared for soldier settlement purposes, had cost £1,800,000. Hp to the present 1425 men had been placed on 332.832 acres, 8-15 men on SSfi,1)00 acres of Crown Lands, and 4132 men had been assisted to purchase 783,000 acres. It was a record of which any country might, well be proud, and without suggesting invidious comparisons lie could say that no other part of the Empire couid equal the record of New Zealand(Applause).

held Ne^^^^^H ■ A.miiCßl service.will ' ttjirybody'g TJieftti*! at 3 •iffthe' mm*tiH ot th * J&^^^^H »%t} and the: Revthe addf* 88 - Therii^^^^^^H hy the CitizonSL Bftnd ' „^^V^^^^| and have arranged suitetye services. TM St. Mary's there will be a. celebration ofl Holy Communion at 8 a.m., which will bM m the nature of a memorial to the *>" M who gave their lives on the peninnd*. Am 11 am. there will, be a parade of BaM Scouts, and at 7 p.m. another bdmUU MM vice, at which the Veil. 'irrihicaiiiuM Evans will be the preacher. At Wiit»3H ley Memorial Church a service in keepijS with the occasion will be held at 7 p.mjH the preacher being the Rev. J. WuJ Milne. In the Presbyterian Chinch, thS Rev. 0. Blundell will preach a setttod appropriate to the day at tho 11 »«J service. To-morrow morning, at 8 o'clock, thai members of the junior branch of tile Wfrtl man's National Reserve will march lo»iha,| cemetery and lay floral tributes withal graves of all soldiers buried there. | The public are invited to wear JMMrhjl of rosemary, "for reiaemtauMe*' ajnj Anzac Day. A good response nasAaen made to the appeal of Mrs. Burgess So* supplies, and these will be distrjbttte%* free by some of the Boy Scouta inttha streets, shops and institutions to*tjr,i and a supply will also bo on fcanddttn Mrs. Burgess' rooms. Devon ■at™*n<W tral. MESSAGE MOM QENERaL »' GODLEY. By Telesraph.—Press Association, j . Dunedin, April :28« apeaking at Lawrence to-day Sif. James Allen said that General Sir Alex- • under Godley had never failed to «end him a message in regard to AnausJtay. Ha had just received the following an**. sage from General Godley: "PleaTevOoa- ' vey to my Anzac comrades my iearttaaffc greetings on this anniversary." '"