SOLDIER SETTLERS’ TROUBLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 March 1922, Page 5

SOLDIER SETTLERS’ TROUBLES.

DEPUTATION TO MINTSTEB. QUESTION OF REVALUATION By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dannevirke, Last Night. A deputation of soldier settlers in the Glengarry block was introduced to the Minister of Lands to-day by Mr. •A. McNicol, M.P., when Mr. Guthrie listened to the representaXions made by the settlers, aleo on tfreir behalf, in favor of an early revaluation of the block, it being unanimously contended that at the present rentals and prices and produce the men had do hope of making a reasonable success of their holdings. . The Minister, in the course of a sympathetic reply, said that both he and the Land Board would give the settlers all the assistance in their power to help them over their difficulties. Returned soldier settlers were not the only ones affected by the slump, as all the farmers, and the country generally, were feeling the pinch, but the outlook wee now improving. The Government, said the Minister, had not wanted to buy all the land offered for soldier settlement, but in many cases its hands had been forced by the insistent demand for land. The Glengarry settlement had been purchased at the then ruling price, and that was die first time he had heard the price was too high. He could not swallow the statement that the vsdue would have to be reduced by 66 per cent. The Minister said he would stand by the law regarding - revahiatiaai, but he would do everything to help the soldiers to make a sucoflM.