LAND FOR SOLDIERS
HINT GIVEN EY MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day.
A hint that a coming Repatriation Bill might include further powers for the Government to acquire land from large holders and make it available to returned soldiers was given by the Minister of Agriculture, Mr Barclay, when replying to criticism of the cost of Government land development schemes in the House of Representatives yesterday.
“Behind all this attack on land development and the small farms schemes is the fear by Opposition members that the Government is going to settle returned soldiers on the land of their friends after taking it from them at a' fair price,” Mr Barclay said. “See what the Opposition says when our Repatriation Bill comes down. If there is any threat to the landholders they will find some way of opposing it. We are not going to shirk the fight to take the land from those who have got more than they can use, to take it, not at an inflated price but at a fair price, and give it to the soldiers.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 August 1941, Page 4
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