ADVANCES TO SOLDIERS.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 28, 24 September 1920, Page 6

ADVANCES TO SOLDIERS.

COMPLAINTS OF DELAY, DENIAL BY THE MINISTEk. j A question regarding appncations fof advances under the Discharged Soldiett Settlement Act was put- by Mr G. MikbsH , (Wellington South) to the Minister oi Lands. Mr Mitchell asked wbkher , applications for advances under the Ac applied for as early as March, and up tO August, had not yet been disposed o Whether the Minister was aware M options for property were contmually j lapsing hefore the department took action, | and whether the delay ^as caused by shortage of funds or of staff? The Minister of Lands (the Hon V. HGuthrie) said he understood that tlus tion emanated from the Wanganui turned Soldiers' Association. As e ^ stated before, all applications up the end ' of June had been ce that had been sent to the head °,ce.j forward applications in order of Prir'r At the time he made that ^ was receiving applications for t e of July, and because of that he all applications for June wei*e ceall>^( It must be understood, k°weV%(j. there were always outstanding tions. It was said that there * ^ ; cations outsanding, which had e ing in since last March. H ^ 0J they were applications for the ^ ; houses that would not be enter al , fact the Government was not ^ ^ aging the purchase of houses, ^ ^ ^ tended merely to raise the P'r_^^ ^ soldiers and everybody else. jrCha» ' were dolng was to encourage of land and the erection of ^oU£ 1 were exceptions to the ru e, ^ ^ Only that day he had sanc on ^ A , chase of a house because ^ case^-that of a married man ^ was just coming out of a pr Ps 4nd had nowhera to gt>- c00U b4 delay so far as he knew a]lo,v (*7 avoided. In no case dld f ^ delay where the moiiey ^ everything was satisfactory.