SOLDIER FARM ARREARS.
RENT AND INSTALMENTS. GOVERNMENT NOT ALARMED. [BY TELEGRAPH. CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON. Tuesday. ' Ministers are not alarmed at all by the latest, soldier settlement returns, which show that arrears of rent and instalments amount now to over £500,000. They point out that it has been the deliberate policy cf the Government during the slump period to permit the postponement of the soldier settlors' payments in all cases where the men were in difficulties. The treatment accorded the soldiers. has been very,liberal and the men naturally have taken full advantage of the facilities offered them for weathering the bad times. The arrears need not be regarded as losses. Some part of the money, perhaps quite a large part of it, will have to be written off eventually, but the Government's losses on an enterprise that ha» involved the expenditure of about £20,000,000 will not be relatively large. That is the official view.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18080, 3 May 1922, Page 6
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