DOING THEIR BEST.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 126, 28 May 1919, Page 5

DOING THEIR BEST.

T" ,—•— 1 TOR RETURNED SOLDIERS. ' *f. ■-"" STATEMENT BY MINISTERS. ' T \ IBy Telegraph.—Press Association.)' WELLINGTON, this da X . - (Reference to the question of repatriation was made 'by the Hon. W. D. S. Mac- ' Donald last night at a dinner to delegates attending the Wellington Farmers' Provincial Union. *ISo far as giving the returned soldier his due," said the Minister, "we know it is absolutely impossible to assess in -money the sacrifices the soldiers of this country have made. ■We do not mean that we are doing ail that the soldier is entitled to, perhaps, but we are doing all that the country can possibly do for him. You can only go as far as means will allow. Some gentlemen who gathered together in one of the Southern cities were talking a food deal about what ought to be done, at they never said anything - about what had been done. Every member of the Repatriation Board is trying to do his best for the returned men." The Minister for Lands, he added, was in a very difficult position, because he had to get the right class of land for soldiers, • in the right position, at price. To put a soldier on land with success was no easy thing to do. The Government did not want to put soldiers on the land where they might not be a success.