MR HOGG AND ADVANCES TO SETTLERS.
In tlio course of \has address at Eketaluma la*t night, Air A. W. Hogg
had a good deal to say about the Advances to Settlers office. He lauded it to the skies-, ass it were, and made ilt appear that it had done more than- anything ellse to help the pioneers. 13 ut what did he say in. the House liast year? Speaking on the Financial Statement on July 29th, 1910, Hansard reports him as saying:—"Millions are being exported from New Zealand by the banks; but if a pooi- settler goes along to tlie Advances to Settlers Office they will tell him, 'lf yon want more than £SOO you cannot get it. Now, £duo may be of use to a man with a cottage, but of what use is such a loam to a man. with one or two hundred acres ? It is practically of 110 use at all. The uOvernment lending office iis virtually dried up. I have forwarded applications to the Premier, and the reply I have got is, 'I hope better times will come, but the applications oannot be granted just how.' During the last eighteen months or two years the utmost advance that a settler could get - is. £oCO, and in many cases sruch an. advance is utterly useless."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10495, 5 December 1911, Page 4
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219MR HOGG AND ADVANCES TO SETTLERS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10495, 5 December 1911, Page 4
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