WHOSE PROPERTY?

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 316, 31 January 1922, Page 6

WHOSE PROPERTY?

■ FATE OF DUKE STREET ORDERLY ROOM. A pei it ion has been presented to the " House of Representatives by Mr J. A. 1 Nash, M.P., on behalf of Colonel Pringlo ; and four others, praying Ilia I the Mana- • nam Mounted Rifles orderly room in Duke street, Palmerston North, be not compulsorilv transferred to the Government. ■ The Government has power, under section 1 75 of the Defence Amendment Act, 1912, to coinpulsorily acquire the property without compensation. Speaking to a "Stan- ■ dard" reporter bo-day Mr Nash said thai ' iha building and "laud were purchased by : ihe old Manawatu Mounted Rifles, and in | later vears had been by old military (associations. Slicing thai the Rifles bad Ihomselves defrayed the cost of the properly they considered that ihev should not be called upon to part with it. A good ' deal of discussion had, added Mr Nash, taken place between representatives of the liilles and the late Minister of Defence, Sir James Allen, towards the end of the war, and lhe former were now asking that the matter be settled absolutely. | -