EX-SOLDIERS AND LAND VALUES.
',' ■■ .Invercargill.-March 22. ■ The financial plight of returned soldiers v/ho had ibeen placed on the laiti by,, the Government and .who now found it almost impossible to meet their'Commitments,was placed before >the Southland provincial' executive of the Farmers 1 Union this afternoon, Mr. W.R.M?bson, president.of the Invercargill Returned Soldiers1 Association, and Mr. V/. Ayson, vice-president of the Aparima branch of the Farmers' Union and honorary.secretary of the Otautau sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' Association, both spoke of the necessity for revaluing land occupied by soldier settlers in order that they might have a reasonable chance of- making good. At the same itime the speakers asked for support for a petition which had been drawn up urging a scaling down of land values for soj-dier settlers. <."-,, iAkfter discussion the Farmers' Union passed a resolution urging those responsible to give special and general consideration to soldier settlers in any^readjustrnent of land values. P.A.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 70, 23 March 1935, Page 4
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154EX-SOLDIERS AND LAND VALUES. Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 70, 23 March 1935, Page 4
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