DEBTS OF SETTLERS.
POSITION IN AUSTRALIA.
RESPONSIBILITIES EVADED.
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The Auditor-General, in his annual report presented to Parliament, refers to the Murrumbidgee irrigation areas. He says the debts owing to the commission by settlers (principally ex-soldiers) are of such magnitude as to cause concern. They have advanced during the year from £1,883,865 to £2,172.051. Of this amount the Treasury has provided £1.991,363 to finance the settlers, the securities being improvements and in most cases movable assets on the farms.
On the data available, says the report, there is undoubted evidence that many settlers have utterly disregarded their liability to account for securities for the advances mado them by the Commission, and in many eases it must be assumed that theft has been perpetrated. The report instances several cases where stock and plant had been supplied to settlers, and on forfeiture of their farms part or nothing of it had been accounted for.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18896, 19 December 1924, Page 11
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