LAND FOR SOLDIERS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 882, 7 December 1916, Page 5

LAND FOR SOLDIERS.

THE GOVERNMENT'S SCHEME

Press Association. WELLINGTON, December 7. In the course of an interview the Hon. J. Allen stated that the area allotted under the Discharged Soldiers' Settlement Act, 1915, to discharged soldiers, now amounted to 70,4% acres, held by 198 men. Up to the present time, 193,009 acres had been formally proclaimed under the Act, which provides for 500,000 acres being made available.

In addition to these areas 732,000 acres of Crown lands may be applied for at any time, either by discharged soldiers or the general public. For the purpose of assisting soldier settlers financially, the Act authorised the Minister of finance to raise a sum not exceeding £IOO,OOO, and to dale advances amounting to t'21,333 had been authorised, and £"11,090 actually advanced.