FARMERS AND WAR PROBLEMS
T ' PKOTECTINCt SOLDIERS' INTERESTS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, May 23. When the Farmers' Union Conference resumed yesterday Mr. A. W. Gillies, expert adviser to the Efficiency Board for Auckland, addressed the conference on the operations of that body as they concerned farmers. The conference passed a resolution: • "That owing to certain properties having been purchased by enemy aliens from men leaving for the front, the conference considers it would be wise to cease selling property to enemy aliens." It was decided to strongly advocate that the Government should extend the system of advances already arranged for the assistance of returned soldier settlers to the Efficiency Board for the management on trust o! the farms of , soldiers on service, v . \ 'Xbe conference referred, to ttxe YfteomUvTg executive a remit that in order to prevent speculation in soldiers' farms, the Government bo Tecommended in the case of farmers called up for military service, and unable to maTce management provision, to buy their farms at a valuation, the money realised to be paid in War Loan debentures, the seller to retain the option of redeeming the farm, at the end of the war.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3092, 24 May 1917, Page 6
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