LAND FOR SOLDIERS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IX, Issue 84, 24 March 1919, Page 4

LAND FOR SOLDIERS.

MINISTER. SEEKS INFORMATION. Often is heard the civ that scores of returned soldiers arc- looking for land which the Government is not in a position to give them. The Minister of Lands, who is in charge of soldier set tleinent. has been travelling all over the country recently, and in order that he may he informed of the numbers of men who are anxious to get land through the Government, he has asked the committees of all branches of the Returned Soldiers’ Association to supply him periodically with a list of all their own members who are looking for land, with particulars of the kind of farming they are prepared to undertake. With this informs lion, the Minister will be able to proceed with more certainty in regard to land purchaS'-s. Many properties arc at present under offer to the Government, but- until something is known of the numbers of men likely to be otlering ns set tiers on them the Gm eminent cannot go very far ahead of immediate re quirenients. It won'd niatiil’estly t unwise for the Government to buy land for which it might ultimately have no use. Informal ion is being asked about- the class of farming the applicant prefers, and it will not. be sufficient for a man l<> s.i\ in reply simply “farming.’’ Upon tbo class of farming the man is ready to undertake will depend the class of land to he pnrcha«eil. And before the; man can get kind at all he mw-v be abh- to satisfy the Land Board that: he has knowledge .sufficient to enable him to carry on such farming operations as are suited to the piece of land tor which he is applying.