SOLDIERS AND THE LAND

Evening Star, Issue 17393, 1 July 1920, Page 7

SOLDIERS AND THE LAND

UKI'ATRIAXiOX I.O AX srGGKSTKD. At, :i public meeting at Oamaru last night, presitied over by the Mayor, it was unaniniousiy' resolved 'to agree 'to the folij a .i,_t icsoiutiou, *. framed nv headunarte rs ; - 1 * tiiis mooting of citizens, having ; ! '-to consideration the statements j oi inc rm:i« Minister and the Minister ')’■ J-ai-os regarding the finance of the I JJoMMnion. and the possible effect of a | continuance of the present scheme of ! ' aayaucos under the Discharged Soldiers’ ,-*,cb in fimiier increasing the l ;n v of l»«d, still Consider that the o»iv equitable ami: honorable -course-open to l-ariiaircnt is-to make the benefited the Dwcuargeu Soldiers’ Settlement- Act cU a liable ti> all soldiers at present entitled to these benefits, and so to avoid penalising many soldiers who hare but recoidly returned fo New Zealand, or have lateiy been released from hospital. or have lately completed their period of ■training under the Renairiatioa ii«partment. ‘ r Urn speakers urged that the Government should appeal to the people to subscribe to a, repatriation loan. The emphatic opinion was expressed that, seeing t-fcat the j people had ‘on' various occasions pledged j themselves to carry the war to a victorious ; conclusion, it was the hounden-dutv of the 1 People, now that victory had come to the ’ nation, also to cany oat the repatriation scheme to a victorious conclusion. A largely-attended meeting of the WelImgcon Returned SokUerw’ Association held last night, discussed the slowing down j of the advances under the Discharged Sol- ! diors’ Settlement Act: Several members of Parliament- were present... The. meeting ■ passed a resolution on the subject as framed , by headquarters. i Special gar-eral meetings of the Tiraara I and Temuka branches of the -.Returned Soldiers’ Association unanimously carried .the same resolution.