SOLDIER SETTLERS
DEBTS OWING IN NEW SOUTH WALES.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION COPURIOHT.)
(Received 18th December, 11 a.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day. The Auditor-General, in his annual report, presented to Parliament, referring to the Murrumbidgee irrigation areas, says that the debts owing k> 11-e Commission by settlers, principally soldier settlers, are of such magnitude as to cause concern. They have advanced during the year from £1883 865 to £2,172,051. Of this amount Die '''••easury has provided £1,991.363 to fiance settlers, the securities for which are improvements, and, in most cases, movable assets on the farms. The data, available, says the report, exhibits undoubted evidence that many of the settlers have utterly disregarded their liability to account for securities for the advances made to them by the Commission, and in many instances it must be assumed thai theft has been perpetrated. The report instances several cases where stuck and plant hud been supplied lo the settlers, and on forfeiture of the fariiiti only a part, or in sonic caeeo nothing, of it was accounted for.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 147, 18 December 1924, Page 7
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172SOLDIER SETTLERS Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 147, 18 December 1924, Page 7
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