SOLDIER SETTLERS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 2 November 1922, Page 2

SOLDIER SETTLERS.

POPLAR GROVE ESTATE

(BY TELEGBAPH —PBESS ASS tATION.} WELLINGT6N. Nov. 1.

At a meeting of the Dominion execu- I tivo of the\ Returned Soldiers' Associa-j tion, Colonel McDonald moved that. while satisfied with the principle of setting lip a local commission to inj quire into soldier settlers' grievances and the price paid by the Government for land, the association should enter an emnhatic protest against the placioig of any^interested person on any board. The motion referred particularly to the Poplar Grove estate, it being asserted j that the .payments required of soldiers ,weria. out of proportion to. those mad© by adjoining landowners, Mr.; Fair, said it seemed incredible that the appointment .should be adhered to while the facts:were as stated. j .'-'''Satisfaction, was • expressed at.. the.1; Minister's reply to other : remits. In ; respect to a recommendation, that the'; Government should develop Crown lands capable of irrigation, the Minister stated that development was limited by finance, and could not be undertaken until the position; improved. It was, resolved to press the matter again Among other matters dealt with were j relief for distressed returned soldiers, j housing accommodation, benefits, provision for employment on Government relief works, and 'urging on the Government the necessity of immediately reopening to full benefits of section two of the Discharged Soldiers'• Settlement Act. ;