SOLDIER SETTLERS.
UNENVIABLE EXPERIENCE. OF AUSTRALIAN- AUTHORITIES.' J Y GAbijih—CHi/SS AabuOi A i’iL/.N —CUC V Bio iTI SYDNEY, Dec. IS.
The Auditor-General, in his annual report which, has been presented to Parliament, says the debts owing to the Commission- by the settlers, principally soldier settlers, are of such magnitude as to cause concern. They have advanced during the year from. £1,883,865 to £2,172,051. Of this amount the Treasury has provided £1,991,363 to> finance settlers, the securities therefore being improvements, and in most cases, movable assets on farms. ■ The data.- available, says the report, exhibits undoubted evidence that many settlers have utterly disregarded- their liability to account for securities for advances made them by the Commission,- and in many, cases it must be assumed that theft has been perpetrated.. The report instanced several cases where stock and plant had been supplied to settlers, arid on forfeiture of their farms only part or nothing of it had been accounted' for.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 19 December 1924, Page 5
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