5700 SERVICEMEN SEEKING FARMS FOR SETTLEMENT
“More ex-servicemen than ever seem anxious to go on to the land, in spite of many gloomy statements to the contrary,” says the Minister of Rehabilitation (Mr C. F. Skinner). “An estimate made by the Rehabilitation Board last year was that altogether about 8000 ex-servicemen of the recent war would require to be settled on their own farms with rehabilitation assistance, but am exhaustive survey just completed indicates that the total number will be about 10,000. This, of course, includes more than 4300 men already settled, so that we shall .evidently have to provide farms for another 5700.
“Even though our task is now rather greater than it at fifSt ed, the Government, and the country, will welcome this manifestation on the part of so many ex-servicemen of a strong desire to go on the land, which will always be New Zealand’s greatest productive asset, and the basis of our whole economy,” said Mr Skinner.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 September 1947, Page 2
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