SOLDIERS' HOUSES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 124, 26 May 1923, Page 15

SOLDIERS' HOUSES.

JiIONEY ALMOST EXPENDED. AITI.I' .\TIU\S It) I KASK. It, \''H' iniilclli* "f !ii>i yi'nr yrants for teturiiinl -.iMiiT* fur the building of houses 11 r. i>l i. -:. 11 \ i cuxml ouilli: lo ihu limited niinii'.v available. Many press\nu fiiwf in , !! l liioimlit under I In- Miuislrr\ n..ii.-.' iiirlmlinj! ->nw in which the lolilicr*. :'~ :i ri'sull uf favourable M>nIwiiu.' «iveii their applications l,j tin- liii-rtl Ihihl Imnnls. lmcl committed I tiicinsi'hi'- i" |iliin» and. in sonic eases. M .ciiiiii-. Tin' Miiii.-ti-r in l liarjip of Rejuitriatiiin. » lip Ilnn I'- IF. Guthrie. tlion Fluted tiic order nf prolerenof in u'hii-li tin- HVHilahh , nioin'\ would bo expended. Pirxl pri'lci-i'iirc u-oitlcl l>o given to si>l--ili,T~ who hutl Ix'i'ii in hospital and who h.,,1 ,on-.,.,|.,,M,>1y nut been able to avail themwlvf, of Hie liennlits of the Art: Booondly. to im-u who lind provided tlionio'ivi's \\it i■ sections. ;in<l thirdly. to tliow moil "how names won- on the bunks. It wns shown from several instances that til." i-liancos cif the two latter were fairly remote and tiiere lias ],„.„ h tedious oVhiy in the granting of applications. Mr. I. Hart ram. M.1 , ., recently mmmunieated with the department and received a reply from the Acting-Minister of Lands. Sir Francis Bell, that all applications made lioforc the curtailment would »"t be affected liy that decision. Tlie telegram also stated thai the department hoped soon to be able to deal finally with all these applications made over nine, months njio. It now appears that the .leaning up of these applications will murk the cessation of the scheme, for advice has been received by the land hoards that no further applications were tn he received after the middle of last month. Ix-cause the residue of the money voted was practically j all expended. > i