LIENS ON CROPS

Evening Star, Issue 19326, 12 August 1926, Page 7

LIENS ON CROPS

SOLDIER SETTLERS OBJECT. SYDNEY, July 29. “If we sign tho liens which tha Lands Department wishes to impose we cannot subsist, and if we don’t sign we will bo hunted off our holdings.” Thus the South Yalgogrin subbranch, on behalf of soldier settlers, writes to the State of tho Returned Soldiers’ League, urging that representations be made to the Minister of Lands to grant relief. _ If a soldier settler signs the Hens, the letter declares, he cannot get credit. No matter how favorable the price of wheat is, he cannot dispose of it. Already the Lands Department holds a mdrjjgago on all these men’s holdings, together with horses, machinery, etc. Tho soldier settlers, by five years’ work, have increased the value of their blocks by from £2,000 to £3,000. Instead of imposing liens on the produce, the Lands Department, they say, should take a promissory note. One Digger who refused to sign the numerous forms sent to him by the Government, after having worked his holding for two years, walked off with just enough money to buy one meal, the letter adds.