FARMS FOR SERVICEMEN
Sir, —After making intensive inquiries for the purchase of a farm through the Rehabilitation Departn ent, I have come to the conclusion that the department either doesn’t want farms for the servicemen or is just holding on to its job for as long as possible. I have been told repeatedly by first-class authority that first-class farms have been turned down by the department and since been sold to other buyers, who have made a wonderful success of them. I, being a returned serviceman with five years’ oversea service and a large family, also lifelong experience in farming, am just simply fed up with the department’s ideas of settling servicemen on farms. Within six months of enlisting for oversea I was in the war zone ready for action. Can’t the department do likewise now? Of course it can.—Yours, etc., REHAD. Geraldine, February 15, 1949. [Mr J. Moore, District Rehabilitation Officer, writes: “I would suggest that your correspondent discuss with the Rehabilitation Committee at Geraldine the full details of these first-class farms he refers to.”]
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25732, 18 February 1949, Page 5
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