LAND SETTLEMENT

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3177, 2 October 1942, Page 5

LAND SETTLEMENT

R.S.A. CONFERENCE REHABILITATION PLANS POLICY OF FREEHOLD TENURE A very largely attended meeting of Returned Services Association delegates from ten branches in the Thames Valley, Waikato and King Country was held in Hamilton on Wednesday afternoon for a discussion on rehabilitation in all its various aspects, and principally that of land settlement. Statements recently made by members of the Government in regard to the land policy of the R.E.A. had been considered disturbing, and the meeting decided that the public should be informed through the newspapers that the R.S.A. had never departed from the policy of the freehold tenure.

It was decided that it was imperative in the interests of returned men that each branch should set up immediately its own rehabilitation committee, the functions being to compile data in regard to available occupations for returned men, and to assist their immediate, needs. Land For Settlement

Important decisions were made in regard to the type of land to foe acquired for settlement, and • the living each soldier should be assured of as his normal right. Vocational training in all its aspects was considered; also that in Hamilton there was the opportunity to' set up a factory for the training of disabled men in the making of leather goods which would be used by the farming community and the public generally, and provide permanent employment for many incapacitated men.

Representations are to be made to the Government that all men accumulating twelve months’ service in camp should be entitled to a full mufti allowance.