SETTLEMENT IN PAPUA
TOO COSTLY FOR EX-SOLDIERS.
(UMTBD PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIOHT.)
MELBOURNE, Bth June.
The Prime Minister, Mr. Hughes, replying to representations in favour of settling returned soldiers in Papua, said that the Government had decided that it would not be in the best interests of the Commonwealth or the soldiers themselves to apply . the soldier-settlement scheme to tropical territories. The minimum area on which a coconut planter could settle would cost from five to ten thousand pounds. With so much land available in Australia, it was considered that such heavy expenditure on the settlement of men in the islands would be unjustified. Special terms, however, would be given to soldiers with the necessary funds to purchase properties expropriated from Germans.
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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 134, 9 June 1922, Page 7
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120SETTLEMENT IN PAPUA Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 134, 9 June 1922, Page 7
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