PRESSING PROBLEM
LAND FOR SOLDIERS.
The Hon. W. D. S. MacDonald'(Min-s ister of Agriculture) returned from Q-is-borne last evening. During his visit there he received several deputations, including one which laid before him problems affecting soldiers and their dependents. In reply to representations made by one deputation regarding the settling of soldiers on land, the Minister stated that up to the present the Government had more land than was being applied lor. Mr. Mao Donald pointed out that with the price of land of good quality so high (the Government had recently purchased a property at Palmerston North at £67 per acre), and with fencing wire at £40 a ton, and cattle £15 or £16 per head, the proposition was a very difficult one. It was proposed to raise £2,000,000 this year to help the soldiers in general
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 38, 14 August 1917, Page 2
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138PRESSING PROBLEM Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 38, 14 August 1917, Page 2
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