MANGONUI COUNTY R.S.A.
SOLDIER SETTLERSS(5mE PLAIN SPEAKING. At a meeting of the soldier settlers of Rongokokaho, near Ekatahuna, one speaker said that there was now not a man of them that could make a living and meet his engagements. If they could not do it this year they would have no chance next year. They were paying up to 35/per acre in interest, while for adjoining properties the owners would be unable to get 25/- an acre. He had been forced into the position pf having to ask for a postponement of instalments. An official had come along and suggested a month. He had replied, “If that is the best you can do, you had better send a man up from Wellington to run the d farm, and I will get out.” The land had to be improved. This took money, and how were they going to get the money to make the land productive when the Government look half their cheques ? If the land was not improved now it would run out further, and the properties would go on decreasing in yalue. One thing was plain. he could not go on from hand to mouth; and he was not going to run into debt without a prospect ot getting out of it.
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Northland Age, Volume 21, Issue 17, 7 August 1922, Page 5
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213MANGONUI COUNTY R.S.A. Northland Age, Volume 21, Issue 17, 7 August 1922, Page 5
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