SOLDIERS’ FARMS.
G OVEKA meat purchase
ißy Electric Telegraph—Special to "Star.”]
WELLIXUTON, TliU Day
At the instance of Mr. Austey, the Premier in the House. yesterday undertook In consider the. possibility of
tlic Government's, arranging to purchase j.-une blocks, of lease in perpetuii v lands for soldiers settlement. It. was meinlioned by Mr. Anstey that Mr. Young, a farmer near
Oainaru, bad a lease in perpetuity farm. Being railed up_ lie endeavored lo sell die land, but the Land Purchase Hoard refused even to inspect tin; lease in perpetuity area. There should be no objection to purchasing
single farms from men who wont to The front.
“Something will have to lie done in (lie direction suggested,” replied Mr. Mas’-vy. “as lease in perpetuity hold-
hold of their title, which was almost as good as a freehold. These areas were disposed of in large blocks which would stand subdivision and it would he a good thing to get the Land Pur.■lire;j Hoard to consider (heir possibilities for soldier settlement. •
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 September 1917, Page 3
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