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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 17, 21 July 1919, Page 2

A complaint was made by a returned soldier, who waited.on the Auckland Farmers' Union last week, that the Lands Department was not prepared, to assist returned soldiers who held land prior to the time they went to the war, without interfering with existing mortgages. Small farmers, the speaker said, who went to the war made sacrifices as igreat as any section of the community. When they returned they found that their lands had gone back, and that they could not carry on unless they were given financial assistance. The Government bought land for returned soldiers, and was prepared to advance up to J3SOQ, but it was not prepared to assist the man who already had land unless he was ■prepared to hand over his mortgages to the Government and to tie himself up for a period of ten. years. What thoy asked was that the Government should advance money to small farmers who had returned to their holdings, anil take a mortgage over the present existing mortgages where the Government valuation Was higher than the existing liabilities. The union (reports the Auckland Star) decided to support the request and to bring the matter before the Government. Statistics of tho United States Employment Service show that not more than 10 per cent, of the hundreds of women who ha,Ve beon velsassd from wai-.tima jobs in Washington wish to return to their home towns.