SOLDIERS' LAND AGENCY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14987, 14 August 1919, Page 5

SOLDIERS' LAND AGENCY.

The Gisborne Returned Soldiers' -Asso--' ciation lias decided to open a soldiers' , land agency in Qisborne on tlie lines of tho successful land and property bureau i established at Auckland, and which was .the subject of an article in • these cob- • ! umnß; recently. . Spealdng to a Herald [ representative to-day," Colonel Fletcher,: president of the local R.S.A., stated that Mr J. White, second son of Mr Cyril ; Wliite, has been appointed manager. 1 Mr White has . been a jpember of ..the,, staff of Messrs Murray, 'Roberts and Co. j I, and has a practical 1 knowledge of the ,' land business, together with an intimate * acquaintnce with, local conditions. The - agency will be conducted on the' lines of i the . Auckland bureau, and .returned sol- , * diers will receive. ;.free s advice' in the ' purchase of either .town of country f property, together with a. rebate of 'so I per of the commission, the bal; - ance being utilised „to meet the working i expenses pf the agency. It. is thus I hoped to afford soldiers a rebate from > the .commission sufficient to cover legal. ) expenses on; the transaction.. .The agency; 1 will 'be" opened 'on September Ist, offices, r having been secured „■ adjacent to ; the' - public library. . Colonel Fletcher added J J tha Vi the .agency should, .fijl ."> a much-; - needed -want, ..as. he,, hadjf blind /his. ,^irnja,; 1 increasingly' occupied] by returned . 801^ i dlers ■ seeking his advice in connection - with the purchase of property under the - provisions ;: of ' 7 the Soldiers' i Settlement Act.

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