PROCEDURE CRITICISED

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 250, 21 October 1944, Page 7

PROCEDURE CRITICISED

SETTLING EX-SERVICEMEN

(By Telegraph.— Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. The. question of some compensation being allowed to meet expenses incurred by a prospective purchaser when the Government steps m and says that a property before a land sales committee is suitable for a soldier was raised by Mr. Broadfoot (Nat Waitomo) in the House ot Representatives yesterday afternoon during consideration of the estimates of the Lands and Survey Department. Mr. Broadfoot also suggested there was enough other land in New Zealand to satisfy the requirements of ex-servicemen if the matter were faced up to properly without the State stepping in when private sales had been arranged. Mr. Broadfoot inquired whether the procedure was to be continued of putting an ex-serviceman on the land and pushing a farmer oli because his property was required. Such a method, he said, was not coins to increase production, because frequently the man who went off the land was more skilled in connection with that particular piece of land than the oncoming man. The Minister of .bands, Mr. Skinner said steps were always taken to see' that no undue hardship was caused to either the vendor or the purchaser, and generally to see that the Act worked with a minimum of friction. He thought the Act was working out fairly well. ,