LAND FOR SOLDIERS.
DANNEVIRKE DEPUTATION.
[ni TELEGRAPn.—rRESS ASSOCIATION.]
DANNEVIRKE, Wednesday.
The necessity for opening up the Tiratu Block was urged by a deputation of returned soldiers which waited on the Minister for Lands, the Hon. D. H. Guthrie, last evening. Ail increase in the Government grant in specially approved cases and an alteration in tenure to permit one soldier to buy out a neighbouring soldier if he so desired, were also requested.
he Minister held out no hope of permitting soldiers aggregating in this way, and said that an extension of the present limit of advance was a matter for tho Cabinet. He said the Tiratu Block would be opened in July and the ballot would bo held in Dannevirke. Water supply for tho block would be provided, and the' sections would range in area from 100 to 250 acres.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17167, 22 May 1919, Page 6
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