SETTLING SOLDIERS,
AUSTRALIA’S POLICY. By Telegraph:—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received June 8, 7.40 p.m. Melbourne, June 8. Mr. W. M. Hughes, replying to representations in favour of settling returned soldiers in Papua, said the Government had decided it was not in the best interests of the Commonwealth or of the soldiers themselves to apply the soldier settlement scheme to island territories. The minimum area on which a cocoanut planter could settle would coat £5OOO to £lO,OOO. With so much land available in Australia, it was considered such heavy expenditure on the settlement of men in the Islands was unjustified. Special terms, however, were to be given to soldiers with the necessary funds to purchase properties expropriated from the Germans.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 June 1922, Page 5
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117SETTLING SOLDIERS, Taranaki Daily News, 9 June 1922, Page 5
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