LAND FOR SOLDIERS
COMPULSORY ACQUISITION
FAVOURED,
(FROli OUR SPECIAL REPORTER.)
MARTON, This Day.
The sub-committee appointed by the Farmers' Union yesterday to consider the land for soldiers' question recommended to-day that the following motion should be adopted: "That this provincial conference of the Farmers' Union recommends that th«s Government should at once secure land for returned soldiers, such land to comprise land of first-class quality suitable for such men as are unfit for backbloek hardships, and' that in order to supply such land compulsory acquisition at fair values should be carried out, and the land paid for at 4J per cent, debentures free of taxation, leaving the owner, if he so wishes, land of a market value of at least £35,000.". The motion was carried unanimously. [The discussion which took place on the above, subject at the Fanners' Conference is reported on page 3 of this issue.]
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 128, 30 May 1917, Page 8
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