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Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 169, 18 July 1908, Page 7

_It is pleasant to read (says the N.Z. limes), that the Lands Department is preparing special settlements for the men now engaged in making theNorthern Trunk Railway, who will be compelled to fend for themselves in a short time. As .they have saved money there could not be a better provision for their comfort, and at the same time for the advancement of the interests of the Dominion, than the settlement of these men on the lands nS U1 ™ y thl/ ail^y they have 3£li Th? Proble»i of what to do with them after the end of their employment has always been regarded as a difficulty. But this system of finding land for them must solve it wonderfully well. It will, in fact, solve it on the lines,which have made the country so prosperous through its well-directed land settlement