POSTPONEMENT OF ACTION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25302, 12 August 1943, Page 4

POSTPONEMENT OF ACTION

REQUEST BY 2nd N.Z.E.F. ASSOCIATION

(P.A.) AUCKLAND, Aug 11. A request that the Servicemen’s Settlement and Land Sales Bill be not proceeded with until all the sections of the community, especially servicemen from the present war, have had an opportunity of submitting their views has been made bv the Dominion Executive of the 2nd NZ.E.F. Association to the Prime Minister, Mr P. Fraser. The executive has also sent a memorandum to each member of Parliament .asking for support for the request. • , .. While wholeheartedly endorsing the object expressed in the Bill to prevent the exploitation of ex-servicemen, the executive in a telegram to the Prime Minister stated that it was unanimously of the opinion that in its present form the Bill would further hinder ex-service-men in obtaining farms or houses by purchase. “ The machinery for assistance in these directions already requires simplification," stated the telegram, “as under the present complex system the amount of actual help has been infinitesimal. It was on these grounds, quite apart from those advanced by the New Zealand Law Society, whieh.it endorsed, that the association made its request.