ADVANCES FOR SOLDIERS.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 12, 4 June 1920, Page 4

ADVANCES FOR SOLDIERS.

OBJECTION TO SUSPENSION. THE MINISTER APPROACHED. MATTER FOR PARLIAMENT. A deputation from the Standing SubCommittee of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association Executive waited upon the Minister for Laads regarding the closing down of advances under Section 2 of the Discharged Soldiers' Settlement Act. The aim of the deputation was to obtain some assurance that applications would be received upon the production of documenta.ry evidence that genuine contracts for the purchase of properties had been entered into prior to the sudden notification of the suspension of advances. The Minister was unable to give this assurance. He stated that he could not commit the Government, and that the matter would be considered by Parliament as soon as possible after the opening of the forthcoming session. The Returned Soldiers' Association in-t-ends circularising local branches throughout the Dominion for particulars of cases where genuino contracts have been entered into prior to, or within, say, a week of the Minister 's statement notifying a suspension or "slackening" of advances. These cases, when in hand, will be presented before the Minister at the oarliest opportunity.