N.Z. RETURNED SOLDIERS' SOCIATION.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14703, 2 June 1920, Page 4

N.Z. RETURNED SOLDIERS' SOCIATION.

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Jwiie .?■ The Returned Soldiers' Conference® cided to urge the Government to pro operation forthwith the clauses of t Acts in l'oree relating to compulsory I quisition of land; that a practaw payment for land so acquired slioald made in Government securities (to® etc.) ; that more stringent store taken to enforce the provisions of t Acts relating to the imposition of t graduated land tax. with a vie*, forcing large landowners to pine®'® land in the markets. . , Tlie Conference passed n rcsolii"' viewing with consternation tlio 6uw withdrawal by the Government of I®" to returned soldiers under the w charged Soldiers' Settlement Act, # urging—(a) that immediate prmnsf be made by Parliament to deal all applications for loans wliicli lodged with the Land Boards i W April 23th, 1920, and (b) that in tk of the h'.rgn number of iip|)! lttl \ 1 | ,n n clined by Land Boards since the vornnient's withdrawal ol loans t lianient should' authorise the anee of these loans at tlio earliestP si bin moment during the conunß

sion. , „ij It was also decided to call upon , Prime Minister to redeem the B misc made by him to the Inst co" enec, that the Act will reman*' ration until every returned s° lu ; settled on the land. It was resolved further to r . local associations to place tliet before their district men I'jcrs 0 .. lianient, and also that tlio 1 n !V; ister' and the Minister of Lands vited to attend the eoufcnmcci which tlie conference wilt ol * .j. with the object of obtaining -■ .< tion. 1, , . . „« |4j Some remits mi the :• 'were passed, including the ?•. i, That tlio Government be urffd f ballots to give preference to nu proceeded overseas as against . B lid not; that discretionary I 'ivcii Land Boards to grant"'ii P j tor sale after tlio expiry or I , that the Government lie « r the stamp duty on who obtain loans under t t Soldier Settlement. Act: '. ' be passed for an inlerinedm tion of lauds ; that <1 i;-t'''»(„•. 1(8 the Association be sunpli''' Department wit h a 0 !.. ! i1i then® meut leases falling due witl three years; that the IS |, on 6 for the purpose of felhn„ en fliers' sections be increjised f ll to cover the actual cost or ,j jj tho R.S.A. be repi-esented Boards, and that IJoaitls f to appoint local committees . (J R.S.A. applications for , n make.® 1 Boards, have the I )0 " cr ,„. 4 0 the J' decisions without referei j nC9 s;;tl ister in order to expedite . « ec tirttt attention be called to unil if the Land Purchase JK f u a clear statement bo ji^ 0< d tc s » eminent regarding t" ~,1 powers.