LOANS TO SOLDIERS
PROTEST BY CONFERENCE. The Returned Soldiers' Conference at Wellington yesterday passed a resolution viewing with consternation the sudden withdrawal by the Government of loans to returned soldiers under the. Discharged Soldiers' Settlement Act, and urging: la) That immediate provision bo made by Parliament to deal with all applications lor loans which were lodged with land boards before April 25, 1920; and (b) that, in view of the. large number of applications declined by land boards since- the Government's -withdrawal of loans, Paxlia ment should authorise a continuance of these loans at the earliest possible mo ment. It was decided during the coming session to call upon tha Prime Minister to redeem the promise made by him to the last conference that the Act will remain in operation -until overy returned soldier is settled on the land. * It was resolved, farther, to a-sk all local associations to place their case before their district members of Parliament: also, that the Prime Minister and the Minister of Lands be invited to attend a conference, failing which the conference will wait on them with the object of obtaining satisfaction.
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Evening Star, Issue 17369, 3 June 1920, Page 9
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188LOANS TO SOLDIERS Evening Star, Issue 17369, 3 June 1920, Page 9
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