SOLDIERS’ DWELLINGS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11250, 30 June 1922, Page 8

SOLDIERS’ DWELLINGS

MONEY FOR BUILDING IN SPECIAL CASE®. Would the Minister for Lands state when the Government proposed to resume tho policy of making advances to returned soldiers for the acquisition of dwellings under the Discharged Soldiem’ Settlement Act, 1917, was a question asked in tho House of Representatives yesterday, without notice, by Sir John Luke (Wellington North). The matter, he stated, was one of some urgency, as hundreds of men were anxious to acquire dwellings. Tho Hon. D. H. Guthrie replied that the Government had not turned down the erection of houses, but it had turned down tho purchase of houses because it would not relieve the position at all. The Government found it very much better to concentrate on the erection of houses, and it had now actually stopped that work. There were men who had not been in a position to make application before —T.B. men, men in hospital, and so on, men too who trad already bought their sections with their own money; and so far as money was available the Government had been trying to clear up these cases. When these had been dealt with, it woukl.dea.l wittTthe others so far as the money would go. Sir Jothn Luke; If a man has bought a section will vou provide him with money to build forthwith.?

The Minister'; Yes, if his Is a special case.