A SOLDIER’S FARM.
IF PROPERTY IS SOLD UP AN IMPORTANT POINT. (By Wire. —Parliamentary Reporter.) Wellington, Last Night. The Minister for Lands was asked today what was the intention of the Government in cases where a soldier’s firm mortgaged to the Crown was sold under power of eale and failed to realise a sufficient price to cover the liability to the Crown, and whether the Government intended to write off the balance owing, or whether the soldier was to have the liability hanging over his head for years. The Hon. D. H. Guthrie replied: “When the Government exercises its power of sale, and there is a deficiency in suelj sale, it is not the practice or intention of the Government to hold such deficiency against a returned soldier, but to write it off. Exception, however, is made in a case where it is fairly evident fraud has been committed, and the Government reserves itself the right to follow up the matter with the view to ascertaining whether distraint can ibe made on any other property belonging to tine soldier, the same to be applied towards the deficiency in question.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 September 1922, Page 4
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189A SOLDIER’S FARM. Taranaki Daily News, 21 September 1922, Page 4
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