NURSE TURNS FARMER.
A WAR SERVICE PRIVILEGE. (SPECIAL TO "THE PRESS.") GIS'BOIINE, August 14. Nurses who rendered war service are entitled to tho same privileges as returned soldiers with regard to taking up Crown land. Tho first case of its kind heard at Gisborne was taken by tho Land I3oanl yesterday,, when a nurse who saw a great deal of war service and who was in the hospital ship Marquette when it was torpedoed applied for a section of landl in the Hukutaia Settlement at Opqtiki. Only two applicants went to the ba,llot, and tho lady was successful. It was stated by one of the members that tho lady in question would make a very capable farmer. "
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18461, 15 August 1925, Page 14
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