SOLDIER SETTLEMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18499, 8 September 1923, Page 10

SOLDIER SETTLEMENT.

WORK OF REVALUATION. ■MACHINERY IN;. MOTION, FORMS OF | APPLICATION. - AVAILABLE NEXT, WEEK. | -' IBT TELEaiUPH.~PRF.S3 ASSOCIATION.] I ;v- :' I r .' WELLINGTON. Friday. | ;^Tho ;action being H taken, under the pro-1 visions of the Discharged.' Soldiers' Settle- ! ment ? Amendment ' Act, 1923, was the; sub- j ject of a statement by. the Hon. W. : Nos-1 worthy to-day. . Mr. , J. * B. ' Thompson,! Under-Secretary of Lands, was. by the Act, chairman of the; Dominion Revaluation Board, and .\ the appointment of : Mr. F.'W. Flanagan, Valuer-General, and Mr. R." A. Rodger, of Tapanui, Otago, as members of ;-,the• ':■ board,': appeared inV this week's Gaz3tte. The fourth • member of the Dominion Board would be' appointed at an; early date. , ■/:':. ' Action was'being takon for the constitution of district revaluation committees, and, in the larger districts, it was the in* tention to appoint at least two district committees .•■'-' ■ ■:i The Act provided for. the issue of regulations prescribing forms . of application for re-valuation, etc., and such regulations had been prepared and would be Gazetted at the earliest' opportunity. The necessary forms were being printed, and a circular letter, together iwith a copy of the application form, will be forwarded to every soldier farmer coming within the scope of the Act. The circular " letter : and the application form' had . been passed for printing, and it was expected they would be-distributed next week. '■■'''i\ "'','' . Applications,,when.returned, would bo scheduled and arranged in order of settlements or districts, so that district committees might oemmenco their duties as soon as they were set up. '.'■-'.■*. ; Soldier settlers under the Act had the right at any -time, within sis months from the passing of the Act—any time up to and including; February 28' make application for revaluation but, in the interests of all parties, it was desirable that soldiers should mako early application. Everything possible had been done to arrange the machinery for the working of the Act, and application forms should bo in the hands of soldier settlers toward the end of next week: ,