LAND FOR SOLDIERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 139, 12 June 1917, Page 4

LAND FOR SOLDIERS.

BLOCKS PURCHASED IK THE SOTJTH. (Special Correspondence.) WELLINGTON, Monday. The announcement that the Government has purchased a block of land at Southbridge, one of the richest agricultural districts in Canterbury, for settlement by returned soldiers, has been received with general satisfaction by people here interested in the welfare" of the and coming back from the front. But it has drawn attention to the fact that the great bulk of the settlement of this character which so far has been completed has taken place in the Wellington district, which happens to have a Land Commissioner and a Land Board that have thrown themselves with very special enthusiasm into this work. Soldiers from the South Island in particular, who naturally would like to settle down in the part of the Dominion with which they are best acquainted, <»mplain that they are not given the ready assistance in acquiring land that is extended to men anxious to make homes for themselves in the North Island. Inquiries show that it is information rather than anything else that is required by these men, and it has been suggested that the publication in pamphlet form of particulars of all the land available would attract many more of them to their own districts.